They Thought They Were Free

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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 is a nonfiction book by Milton Mayer, first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1955. It describes ordinary German citizens' thought processes during the Nazi regime. August Heckscher, the chief writer of editorials of the New York Herald Tribune, wrote that the book "suggests how easy it is for human beings in any society to fall prey to a dynamic political movement, provided their lives are sufficiently insecure, frustrated or empty." He called the book simultaneously a discussion of ethics, of "how political tyranny is established", and of issues in Germany and the "German mentality".

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