American in Hitler's Berlin

This is the first published edition of the diary of Abraham Plotkin, an American labor leader of immigrant Jewish origin who lived in Berlin between November 1932 and May 1933. A firsthand account of the Weimar Republic''s final months and the early rise of Nazi power in Germany, Plotkin''s diary focuses on the German working class, the labor movement, and the plight of German Jews. Plotkin invest...