Alexandra Sangster

Love and Terror in the Third Reich

History & Biography

“Love and Terror in the Third Reich confronts us with a world at once utterly familiar: the ‘golden’ little toddler, clapping her hands yet at the same time, brutally alien: the Jews rounded up and shot. We read it and we fall in love with a young couple, living out their courtship, their marriage, the birth of children and their separation against the unfolding horror of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. As an Australian minister whose own work is lived out on stolen land while refugee children are locked up in camps for years, I know only too well how easy it is to let the great banality of evil sooth me into submission. This book is a timely reminder to pay attention to the powers that be.”