BERADT, Charlotte [Aron] (text); Hannah Arendt (collab.); Adriane Gottwald (translation); Bruno Bettelheim (essay)

The Third Reich of Dreams

Chicago: Quadrangle Books, Inc., 1968. First English Language Edition. Octavo (21cm); black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in green on spine; light green topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; green endpapers; [vi],[4],5-177,[1]pp. Light shelf-wear, tiny inked mark to lower margin of p.37, and occasional interior soil; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, designed by Bill Hollingshead with photograph by Brian Katz, unclipped (priced $4.95), with modest shelf-wear and -soil, faint cup-ring to rear panel, and light rubbing with tiny tears to spine panel and extremities; Very Good.

Following Beradt's arrest for supposed Communist support during the wake of the Reichstag Fire Decree, she began to research and record over 300 dream accounts from individuals living in Germany from 1933-1939. In October of 1943, New York magazine Free World published a short section of her work as "Dreams Under Dictatorship". (see https://www.museumofdreams.org/third-reich-of-dreams and https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/how-dreams-change-under-authoritarianism).

Arendt began to work with Beradt in 1939 when the two were living within a community of exiles in New York, and continued to collaborate on works and translations together. The two first published this present book-length form as Das Dritte Reich des Traums (1966) in Germany. (see https://www.museumofdreams.org/third-reich-of-dreams).

Historical document examines the levels of impact the Nazi regime had on personal and generational well-being, with focus on the lasting changes to individual and group psyche. This English translation includes an afterword by the concentration camp survivor and psychologist, Bruno Bettelheim. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his bookplate to front pastedown. [86219].

Price: $450.00

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