PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksCharlotte Beradt, a 25-year-old Berlin Jew and freelance journalist, conceived for herself a brilliantly original way to document the transformations around her—she would write down the dreams of her friends and acquaintances, all of whom were paying close attention to the new chancellor’s every move ... Beradt draws a number of fascinating conclusions from the dreams, which she divides into categories functioning as chapters ... Reading these and other dreams like it, one senses the unremitting need to be freed from an impossible moral conundrum ... Because of the urgency of her cause and her lack of credentials, Beradt feels she must prove what she doesn’t have to prove, at least not so relentlessly—that fascism seeps into every crevice of life and robs citizens of privacy or any place to recover and retrench ... This didactic impulse results in sentences both unwieldy and unnecessary ... But, on the other hand, these flaws are by-products also of her individuality and her inventing a book unlike any other.
