![]() ![]() As a Catholic-majority village of about 4,000 near the Austrian border, with few Jews living there in the late 1930s and many tourists and skiers lured to its spectacular mountains, Oberstdorf boasted a vigorous municipal government-until March 5, 1933, when the populace voted in the Nazi Party. Yet it soon become apparent that this story of a small town in Germany served as a microcosm for the entire nation, which ultimately succumbed to Nazi rule. ![]() Boyd, author of the award-winning Travelers of the Third Reich, delved into this project almost reluctantly, knowing little about the place. Working with Patel, a local historian who was designated the task of writing a history of Oberstdorf covering the years of Nazi rule. ![]() How a storied, seemingly idyllic Bavarian town gradually embraced Nazi ideology. ![]()
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