Jew Corrupter: Andrew Nagorski - author of book "Hitlerland" -- reviewed by Henry Kissinger

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Nagorski Name Meaning
Polish and Jewish (from Poland and Ukraine): habitational name from any of several places called Nagórze in Poland, or from a village in Ukraine called Nagortsy.

More Jew B.S. from a Newsweek-CFR Tribe Member....  
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Andrew Nagorski

Andrew Nagorski (born 3 May 1947[1]), an award-winning journalist, is Vice President and Director of Public Policy at the EastWest Institute. Prior to that, as a senior editor at Newsweek magazine,     he served in a variety of news reporting positions throughout the world. In addition, Nagorski is an author of both fiction and non-fiction books. He formerly served as senior editor of the international division of the magazine.[2]

Early life

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland of Polish parents (who shortly after his birth emigrated to the United States), he attended school overseas while his father was in the United States Foreign Service. He earned a B.A. magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College in 1969 and studied at the University of Cracow. Nagorski taught social studies at Wayland High School in Massachusetts before joining Newsweek.

News reporting

After joining Newsweek International in 1973 as an associate editor, he was its assistant managing editor from 1977 to 1978. From 1978 to 1980, Nagorski was the Hong Kong-based Asian regional editor for Newsweek International and then as Hong Kong Bureau Chief.

From 1990 to 1994, he served as Newsweek's Warsaw bureau chief, and he has served two tours of duty as Newsweek's Moscow bureau chief, first in the early 1980s and then from 1995 to 1996. In 1982, he gained international notoriety when the Soviet government, angry about his enterprising reporting, expelled him from the country. After spending the next two and a half years as Rome bureau chief, he became Bonn bureau chief.

As Berlin bureau chief from 1996 to 1999, Nagorski provided in-depth reporting about Germany's efforts to overcome the legacy of division, the immigration debate, and German-Jewish relations. From Berlin, Nagorski also covered Central Europe, taking advantage of his long experience in the region and his knowledge of Polish, Russian, German and French.

Nagorski was in New York as a senior editor for Newsweek from January 2000 till 2008, after serving as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief for Newsweek in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn, Warsaw and Berlin. Nagorski developed the editorial cooperation between Newsweek International and its network of foreign language editions and other joint venture partners. The most recent additions have been Newsweek Russia, which was launched in June 2004, and Newsweek Polska. Nagorski is now at the EastWest Institute as Vice President and Director of Public Policy. Nagorski also continues to write reviews and commentaries for Newsweek International. He has been honored three times by the Overseas Press Club for his reporting.[2]

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Nagorski

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"Andrew Nagorski, a deft storyteller, has plumbed the dispatches, diaries, letters, and interviews of American journalists, diplomats and others who were present in Berlin to write a fascinating account of a fateful era."

-Henry Kissinger

"Andrew Nagorski once again turns his perceptive, seasoned foreign correspondent's eye to a dramatic historical subject. This eye-opening account of the Americans in 1920s and 1930s Berlin offers a totally new perspective on a subject we thought we already knew. "

-Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag: A History

"Andrew Nagorski's Hitlerland is a fresh, compelling portrait of Nazi Germany, as seen through the eyes of a fascinating array of Americans who lived and worked there during Hitler's rise to power. The extraordinary saga of Putzi Hanfstaengl, a Harvard graduate who became Hitler's court jester, is just one of the many page-turning stories that makes Hitlerland a book not to be missed."

-Lynne Olson, author of Citizens of London

"The rise of Hitler and the Nazi state, one of the most consequential and profound narratives in all of world politics, receives compelling new treatment in Andrew Nagorski's outstanding Hitlerland. By illuminating the disparate experiences of the era's preeminent American diplomats, journalists, intellectuals and others, Nagorski has created an engrossing, harrowing and vividly drawn mosaic of eyewitness accounts to one of history's most phenomenal catastrophes."

-Gordon M. Goldstein, author of Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam  

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Still another Jew written book on the Nazis.  This crap focuses on a "Skisa" from this J-Triber's point of view...the collective J-Tribe Kosher "Paranoia" of it occurring again (i.e., their collective asses getting kicked out) is evident in the number of idiot power-Jews murmuring about this book.  ---CSR

"Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power" by Andrew Nagorski
By Gerard DeGroot,March 16, 2012

Nonentities are sometimes rendered significant by the events that surround them. Take, for instance, Martha Dodd, a silly woman whose judgment was clouded by her libido. In 1933, at the age of 24, she went to Germany with her father, William, the newly appointed American ambassador. That move gave her the opportunity to sleep her way through Berlin, instead of her native Chicago.

Handsome Nazis convinced her that all was wonderful under Hitler. "She just liked sleeping with attractive men," one of her friends observed, "and that's how she learned about politics and history." In truth, she did not learn much.

When Dodd tired of Nazis, she decided the Soviets were much more interesting and started sleeping with them instead. She is perhaps the most bizarre character in Andrew Nagorski's "Hitlerland," but not by much. Interwar Germany was a strange place that attracted strange visitors. Nagorski has collected the recollections of these travelers, or at least the American ones. Their accounts are knitted into an interesting narrative of Adolf Hitler's rise. "Hitlerland" tells a familiar story in an American accent.

The cover boasts that the book contains some big names, including George Kennan, Charles Lindbergh, Jesse Owens, Edward R. Murrow, Sinclair Lewis and Richard Helms. But they in fact have small parts. The meat of the testimony comes from lesser figures such as the journalists Sigrid Schultz and Hubert Knickerbocker, the embassy official George Messersmith, and the military attache Truman Smith. Their recollections are bulked out with some fascinating trivialities.

As Nagorski points out, Berlin was, during the interwar period, the most interesting and exciting city on Earth. A sublime and cutting-edge culture was combined with peculiar politics, skyrocketing inflation and a lot of kinky sex. The political drama was rendered all the more fascinating by the shenanigans of a clown called Hitler whom few observers took seriously. Americans were welcomed because they represented the New World, a state of aspiration for Germans. Given the inflation, American dollars were powerful, making the frolics these visitors could enjoy in this land of fantasy all the more intense.

Americans reacted to Hitler rather as any other nationality did. First they ridiculed him, then they expressed grudging admiration for the order he brought to Germany. Later, they turned a blind eye to his anti-Semitism, excused his craving for territorial expansion and doubted his appetite for war. A few warned of Hitler's threat, but they were largely ignored.

Most Americans tolerated German racism precisely because it was directed at Jews. The most striking feature of this book is how easily these visitors grafted themselves onto the prejudices of their hosts. Typical was Donald Watt, who arrived in Germany in 1932 to organize a student exchange. He convinced himself, on no evidence, that "relatively few" Jews were mistreated and decided that the main cause of anti-Semitism was that "a large proportion of all business was in Jewish hands." In Berlin, hating Jews was the equivalent of high fashion.

The book's best insights come not from Nagorski but from the would-be journalist Howard K. Smith, who arrived in Germany in 1936, fresh from university. Smith observed four stages of American reaction. The first was admiration: Americans saw neatness, efficiency, prosperity and cleanliness. New to the country, they credited these characteristics to Hitler, instead of realizing that they were essentially German. Stage two brought a recognition of militarism — uniforms, guns, marching and "Heil Hitler" salutes. But since military pageantry was quite exciting, many failed to appreciate the threat it symbolized.

The problem, Smith wrote, was that the vast majority of Americans never progressed beyond stage two, either because their visit was so short or because they had "the sensitivity of a rhinoceros's hide and the profundity of a tea-saucer." A tiny few reached stage three, when they began to realize that millions of Germans "were being trained to act merely upon reflexes." That should have spelled danger but often encouraged fatalism — an assumption that nothing could be done or a belief that the Germans should be allowed to find their own way.

The final stage was fear — a sense of "alarm that the rest of the world had no idea what was rising to confront them." Only a small minority ever reached that stage. Perception was blocked by myopia, prejudice, inexperience or wishful thinking. Because Americans feared war, they refused to acknowledge the signs that war was coming.
"Hitlerland" is a bit of a guilty pleasure. Reading about the Nazis is not supposed to be fun, but Nagorski manages to make it so. His touch is light, his point of view intentionally detached. The analysis is consequently woefully thin — these witnesses should have had more criticism directed toward them. There's nothing particularly original or illuminating in this book, but it does manage to entertain. Readers new to this story will find "Hitlerland" fascinating, but, with interest piqued, they should then turn to the more complete and rigorous accounts offered by Ian Kershaw or Richard Evans.

"Hitlerland" is a story of naivete, of wishful thinking, of omens unheeded. Strip away the trivialities and banalities that overpopulate this book, and what emerges is a chronicle of dangerous hypocrisy. Americans excused and sometimes celebrated crimes that they would have roundly condemned in their own country. Raised on liberty, they were incredibly tolerant of its destruction. This is a familiar story, but we should occasionally take the time to reacquaint ourselves with it.

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