Enemy of the People: The Munich Post and the Journalists Who Opposed Hitler

Terrence Petty

Jun 2020 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Christopher Douyard

About this audiobook

A stirring true story of the journalists who dared to oppose Hitler-and the campaign waged against them. After serving in the First World War, Adolf Hitler encountered a serious obstacle to his plotting for power when the Munich Post, drawing on sources within the Nazi Party, began tracking the corruption and dark dreams of his inner circle. With leaked documents from Hitler's political rivals, who were shocked by his violent rhetoric and fearing the worst, the Post battled Hitler for ownership of the truth. After starting with libel lawsuits and anti-press propaganda and proceeding to assaults on editors at the Post, the Nazis finally resorted to raiding the paper's offices, shutting production down, and rounding up the staff. Enemy of the People brilliantly captures the dangerous times of Germany's Weimar era and the courage of the free press-people driven to speak louder than the enemy himself.

About the author

Terrence Petty was an Associated Press journalist for thirty-five years. Retired since 2017, he was based in Bonn from 1987 to 1997, where he covered German and European affairs, traveling between West and East Germany during the Cold War. Petty and his wife, Christina, live in Portland with their son, Tristan.

Christopher Douyard took the backroads to audiobook narration, though he is no stranger to performing. Christopher has nourished a passion for books and storytelling since his youth, when he would devour Tolkien and the Encyclopedia Britannica with equal abandon. He records from his studio in central Connecticut.