``When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public.
General readers may have been slower to take notice, but over time They did--what we\'v.
He\'s right about the critics: the book was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1956.
Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg.`` That\'s Milton Mayer, writing in a foreword to the 1966 edition of They Thought They Were Free . ``When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public