# Berlin Diary ![rw-book-cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZuAr8jp2L._SL200_.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[William L. Shirer]] - Full Title: Berlin Diary - Category: #books ## Highlights - And the year just past, 1933, may very well have been one not only of transition for us personally, but for all Europe and America. What Roosevelt is doing at home seems to smack almost of social and economic revolution. Hitler and the Nazis have lasted out a whole year in Germany and our friends in Vienna write that fascism, both of a local clerical brand and of the Berlin type, is rapidly gaining ground in Austria. ([Location 54](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005Z553RA&location=54)) - It almost seems as though the world we are plunging back into is already a different one from that we left just a year ago when we packed our clothes and books in Vienna and set off for Spain. ([Location 59](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005Z553RA&location=59))