![]() ![]() ![]() A few of them were well-known public or cultural figures, such as Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett most were largely unknown tourists, academics, students, diplomats, businesspeople, and athletes. To what extent could they see the horrors behind the tourist facade? British writer Boyd ( A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking’s Foreign Colony) culls the impressions of nearly 200 short- and long-term travelers, almost all British and American, to examine this question. For many foreign visitors, even after 1933, Germany was not “the Third Reich,” but rather a charming country with beautiful landscapes, women dressed in dirndls, and rustic gothic villages. ![]()
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