by Sebastian Haffner · Ediciones Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423342594
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In 'La vida de los paseantes' ('The Life of Strollers'), Sebastian Haffner presents a collection of thirty-nine articles written between 1933 and 1938, during the early years of the Nazi regime. Haffner, an 'Aryan' who went into exile in 1938, captures the everyday life of an era in which life continued seemingly normal, with cinemas, theaters, and cafes full, while the 'strollers' wandered oblivious to the dangers ahead. With brilliant prose and a sharp style, the author offers us a unique vision of the daily life in Germany in the 1930s, narrated by an exceptional witness.
Raimund Pretzel, better known by his pseudonym Sebastian Haffner, was a German journalist and historian. As an émigré in Britain during World War II, Haffner argued that accommodation was not only impossible with Adolf Hitler but also impossible with the German Reich with which Hitler had gambled. Peace could be secured only by rolling back history and restoring Germany to a network of smaller states. As a journalist in West Germany, Haffner's independence and penchant for provocation precipitated breaks with editors both liberal and conservative. His intervention in the Spiegel affair of 1962, and his contributions to the anti-fascist rhetoric of the student New Left, sharply raised his profile.
