The Public Life and the Mood in the Third Reich in the First Years of the Nazi Ruling: According to the Memoirs of the Foreign Citizens

The article is devoted to the analysis of different manifestations of the Everyday Social Life in the Hitler’s Germany which interested the foreign journalists, scientists, diplomats and members of their families who visited the Third Reich in the prewar years and lived there during more or less long period. The author put a special attention to the mentioned foreigners’ impressions of anti-Semitic mood which were widespread in the Nazi Germany; to the atmosphere in which the formation of the rising generation of the Germans took place (especially about the conditions in which the pupils of elite educational institutions, such as ordensburgs, were kept); to the display of the Fuhrer’s cult in the the Third Reich; to the atmosphere of the enthusiasm which prevailed in the German society and even impressed greatly many foreigners. The cited memoirs have a special interest as far as their authors watched and analysed a reaction of the Germans of different social and educational level to the conditions of the life under the Nazi Regime. From the point of view of the author of the article the facts we can find in the cited memoirs testify that the Nazis could quickly transformed the majority of the German philistines into the politicized and ideologically motivated mass. From the point of view of the author this became possible due to the combination of the measures of the social policy, propaganda and repressions which were realized in the totalitarian social state the specific variant of which was created by the Nazis.