Charlotte Beradt

Charlotte Beradt was a German American journalist and translator, best known for her 1966 book collecting the dreams of German citizens under Adolf Hitler, The Third Reich of Dreams, and her translations of the work of Hannah Arendt.

• •Charlotte Beradt secretly collected dreams of ordinary Germans between 1933 and 1939 to document the psychological impact of the Nazi regime.
• •Beradt's most famous work, 'The Third Reich of Dreams,' was initially rejected by publishers and only gained recognition decades after its completion.
• •After fleeing Nazi Germany, Charlotte Beradt lived in exile in Palestine and later New York City.
• •Beradt worked as a journalist in New York City, writing for German-language newspapers targeted at exiled Germans.
• •Despite living in exile and facing hardship, Beradt continued to write and reflect on the nature of totalitarianism and its effects on the human psyche.