Enemy of the People

The Munich Post and the Journalists Who Opposed Hitler

De: Terrence Petty

Narrado por: Christopher Douyard

A stirring true story of the journalists who dared to oppose Hitler - and the campaign waged against them.

After serving in the First World War, Adolf Hitler encountered a serious obstacle to his plotting for power when the Munich Post, drawing on sources within the Nazi Party, began tracking the corruption and dark dreams of his inner circle. With leaked documents from Hitler's political rivals, who were shocked by his violent rhetoric and fearing the worst, the Post battled Hitler for ownership of the truth.

After starting with libel lawsuits and anti-press propaganda and proceeding to assaults on editors at the Post, the Nazis finally resorted to raiding the paper's offices, shutting production down, and rounding up the staff. Enemy of the People brilliantly captures the dangerous times of Germany's Weimar era and the courage of the free press - people driven to speak louder than the enemy himself.

©2019 Terrence Petty (P)2020 Tantor

Engaging, Long Neglected Story

Petty does a solid job of bringing the Munich Post and its long struggle against the Nazi Party to life. Focusing on a number of key editors of this Social Democratic paper, while emphasizing the paper sometimes printed unproven rumors and scandals that would fall beneath the level of most western journalism, the author demonstrates the courage of these journalists in standing up to the Nazi Party during, and even briefly after, its rise to power. True courage is a rare commodity in every country and at every time. Showing willingness to speak truth to power and in the face of terror, this brief but moving narrative gives the reader just a little more faith that those who stand for what is right may not always succeed, but should be emulated and never forgotten.

Important to read

We need more stories like this to remind us how easy we are deceived as a spicy and what it takes to keep that from happening.