The Swastika
It's safe to say that most contemporary readers of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich will be just as familiar with the Nazi swastika as Shirer's earliest readers would have been. Even seventy ye...
Flock and Herd Imagery
Speaking of "flocking" under the Nazi banner... Throughout TRFTR, Shirer uses "flock" and "herd" imagery to describe the German people. As he tries to explain the unprecedented degree of power that...