L'ordre du jour

01.02.2021

This is my fourth book in french now, and yes I am reading one book per week, or at least I'm trying to. To be completely honest with you, I didn't actually read this book completely. I found it quite boring for some reason (maybe I was just iin a reading slump) and skimmed through a few pages in the middle of it, hoping to arrive to a more interesting part at some point. The book is described as an historical essay, it is pretty sure, but to be honest for me it wasn't short enough.

The book is a sort of chronicles that talk about the premices and the beginning itself of the Third Reich and the ascention of the Nazionalist party in the 1930s. At the beginning we have a 24 famous entrepreneurs in a meeting, such as Bayer, Opel, IG Farben etc. Herman Goering is asking all of these people to financially support the next elections. He then returns to the Anschluss through various often little-known moments in history. Another few popular events are mentioned like different meetings between Hitler and the chancellor of Austria, talks and meetings between the british Prime Minister Chamberlain, the french minister and Hitler. At the end it's also mentioned what happened to some of the entrepreneurs after the second worl war, during the Nuremberg trails.

Star rating: I guess you could have guessed from my review, but I really wasn't too fascinated with this book. It was slow, and couldn't really hold my attention for long. At times I had to skip through a few pages in hopes to see some developpment. Overall I wouldn't give it more than two stars, I think the plot could've been developped way better.