Into the Darkness: An Uncensored Report from Inside the Third Reich at War by Theodore Stoddard

A leading American journalist travels to Nazi Germany in December 1939, arriving in wartime Germany where all the lights are blacked out in preparation for an English or French bombing campaign. T. Lothrop Stoddard’s provocatively-titled book refers to the eerie experience he felt of first encountering this total blackout.

Into the Darkness was the product of an assignment by the North American Newspaper Alliance company in which Stoddard was detailed to report on wartime conditions in Nazi Germany—at a time before the US became involved in the war.