Newmag published Sebastian Hafner's "The Story of a German" in Armenian. The individual against the thousand-year-old Reich" (trailer)

Germany in the 1920s was a set of defeat complexes. No one was surprised by the crazy thoughts that flowed from the rage, the feeling of helplessness deepened to infernal indifference. This was an open field for political adventure, let alone an agenda for organized revenge.

All this becomes the subject of Sebastian Hafner's book. The writer's youth passed between the two world wars in Germany. He was a lawyer, educated, with a predictable career and a foreseeable future. Hafner's memoir depicts the lives of Germans during the rise of Nazism and the two world wars. It refers to the realities of 1907-1933 as an eyewitness, from the Hitler youth movement to the Nazi regime.

In 1933, he managed to leave Germany and survive. In Great Britain, he was arrested and imprisoned for two years, after which Hafner became a journalist and started writing for the German-language magazine Die Zeitung. During this period, in 1939, he wrote "The Story of a German", showing the collective madness of Germans with artistic depth and documentary precision.

No one even knows about the book. It was published only after Hafner's death. His son collected the pieces, restored some lost parts based on translations, and published it in 2000. Literary work suddenly gains worldwide recognition.

Terror, celebrations, betrayal, and collective collapse—madness disseminated by one man across an entire nation, casting them as witnesses, victims, and participants in the greatest crime of the 20th century. This masterpiece vividly captures the life of an ordinary citizen amidst the gradual emergence of a totalitarian regime.