Out of print in English for over forty years, THE THIRD REICH OF DREAMS was republished in April 2025 by Princeton University Press, the ‘lost’ rights discovered whilst I was researching a film project. 

The film is currently in development, supported with grants from The Claims Conference, Jewish Story Partners and a 2024 Film Residency at the Jewish Film Institute. Please contact me if you'd like to learn more. 

Reviews for the book: 

“This is the kind of book that haunts your dreams. Essential reading for anyone who has known what it is like to live within a totalitarian state—or is worried they’re about to find out.” —ZADIE SMITH, The New York Review of Books

“Extraordinary. . . at once a nocturnal oral history, a collection of parables worthy of Kafka and arevelatory account of despotism internalized. . . .The least we can do is read this singular documentwith our eyes wide open.” — Wall Street Journal 

“A strange, enthralling book. . . . The Third Reich of Dreams is a collective diary, a witness account hauled out of a nation’s shadows and into forensic light.” — New Yorker

“At once terrifying and illuminating, Beradt’s riveting dream book takes us deep into the psychologicalsubject under Nazism. Its republication could not be timelier. The Kafkaesque landscape that emergesis all the more frightening because it is so close not only to the ordinary experience of Nazi times butalso perhaps increasingly our own.” —Lisa Appignanesi 

“An eerie reminder of totalitarianism’s torments, at a time when the world seems to be drifting onceagain towards darkness.” — The Telegraph 

“There is nothing like it in Holocaust literature.”
— Reinhart Kosseleck