The Respectable Career of Fritz K.

"By outlining Fritz Kiehn's career both in a rational-academic but also lively manner, the authors have succeeded in creating an unusually insightful and astute book on what was 'normal' in Germany in the twentieth century." * Die Zeit "The documentation and interpretation of what was usual makes [the book's] presentation interesting and worth reading. It is also worth reading, of course, because of the writing talents of both its authors [who] have not only penned a rich socio-historical study; they have, quite simply...written a good book." * Vierteljahrschrift fur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte "A historiographical masterwork, a successful example of how fruitful interdisciplinary historical research can be. It is about structures, milieus, mentalities, and microhistory. But it is also just as much about grand politics, economic history, and a very particular person whose contradictions the two authors managed to describe with brilliance." * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung