Duel with Hitler

As a 25yearold legal trainee Sebastian Haffner experienced the assumption of power of Hitler in Berlin in 1933 He became a witness of a dramatic upheaval which changed also his life fundamentally His best friend had to emigrate hastily the love to a young Jewish woman broke up Haffner himself could avoid the whirlpool from terror and seduction less and less His life became a dangerous tightrope walk between adaptation and refusal He emigrated to England in 1938 Decades after the war he was one of the most famous journalists of the Bonn republic