The Third Reich of Dreams

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Charlotte Beradt began having unsettling dreams after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. She envisioned herself being shot at, tortured and scalped, surrounded by Nazis in disguise, and breathlessly fleeing across fields with storm troopers at her heels. Shaken by these nightmares and banned as a Jew from working, she began secretly collecting dreams from her friends and neighbors, both Jewish and non-Jewish. Disguising these 鈥渄iaries of the night鈥� in code and concealing them in the spines of books from her extensive library, she smuggled them out of the country one by one.

Available again for the first time since its publication in the 1960s, this sensational book brings together this uniquely powerful dream record, offering a visceral understanding of how terror is internalized and how propaganda colonizes the imagination. After Beradt herself fled Germany for New York, she collected these dream accounts and began to trace the common symbols and themes that appeared in the collective unconscious of a traumatized nation. The fear of dictatorship was ever-present. Dreams of thought control, even the prohibition of dreaming itself, bore witness to the collapse of outer and inner worlds.

Now in a haunting new translation by Damion Searls, The Third Reich of Dreams provides a raw, unfiltered, and prophetic look inside the experience of living through Hitler鈥檚 terror.

Awards and Recognition

One of The Economist's Best 快色直播 Published This Year So Far
Longlisted for the Freudenheim Translation Prize, Jewish Literary Foundation
An Economist Best Book of the Year
A Catholic World Report Favorite Reads of the Year
A History Today Book of the Year

Charlotte Beradt (1907–1986) was a Jewish journalist and Communist activist based in Berlin during the Third Reich. She fled to New York in 1939 as a refugee, creating a gathering place for other German 茅migr茅s, including Hannah Arendt. Damion Searls is an award-winning translator and writer whose translation of Jon Fosse’s novel A New Name was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Olivia Vinall is an actor and voice artist with an extensive career in television, theater, and film, including roles on the British dramas Queens of Mystery and Roadkill. She is the narrator of Costanza Casati’s novel Clytemnestra, among other audiobooks.