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The Third Reich's Elite Schools
The Third Reich's Elite Schools tells the story of the Napolas, Nazi Germany's most prominent training academies for the future elite. This deeply researched study gives an in-depth account of everyday life at the schools, while also shedding fresh light on the political, social, and cultural history of the Nazi dictatorship.
A Companion to Nazi Germany
A Deep Exploration of the Rise, Reign, and Legacy of the Third Reich For its brief existence, National Socialist Germany was one of the most destructive regimes in the history of humankind. Since that time, scholarly debate about its causes has volleyed continuously between the effects of political and military decisions, pathological development, or modernity gone awry. Was terror the defining force of rule, or was popular consent critical to sustaining the movement? Were the German people sympathetic to Nazi ideology, or were they radicalized by social manipulation and powerful propaganda? Was the “Final Solution” the motivation for the Third Reich’s rise to power, or simply the outc...
Visions of Community in Nazi Germany
When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933 they promised to create a new, harmonious society under the leadership of the Führer, Adolf Hitler. The concept of Volksgemeinschaft - 'the people's community' - enshrined the Nazis' vision of society'; a society based on racist, social-Darwinist, anti-democratic, and nationalist thought. The regime used Volksgemeinschaft to define who belonged to the National Socialist 'community' and who did not. Being accorded the status of belonging granted citizenship rights, access to the benefits of the welfare state, and opportunities for advancement, while these who were denied the privilege of belonging lost their right to live. They were shamed, excl...
Hitler's Berlin
From his first visit to Berlin in 1916, Hitler was preoccupied and fascinated by Germany's great capital city. In this vivid and entirely new account of Hitler's relationship with Berlin, Thomas Friedrich explores how Hitler identified with the city, how his political aspirations were reflected in architectural aspirations for the capital, and how Berlin surprisingly influenced the development of Hitler's political ideas. A leading expert on the twentieth-century history of Berlin, Friedrich employs new and little-known German sources to track Hitler's attitudes and plans for the city. Even while he despised both the cosmopolitan culture of the Weimar Republic and the profound Jewish influence on the city, Hitler was drawn to the grandiosity of its architecture and its imperial spirit. He dreamed of transforming Berlin into a capital that would reflect his autocracy, and he used the city for such varied purposes as testing his anti-Semitic policies and demonstrating the might of the Third Reich. Illuminating Berlin's burdened years under Nazi subjection, Friedrich offers new understandings of Hitler and his politics, architectural views, and artistic opinions.
Heimat, Region, and Empire
This collection brings together international scholars pursuing cutting-edge research on spatial identities under National Socialism. They demonstrate that the spatial identities of the Third Reich can be approached as a history of interrelated dimensions; Heimat, region and Empire were constantly reconstructed through this interrelationship.
A Third Reich, as I See It"
With the beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship, Germany not only experienced a deep political turning point but the private life of Germans also changed fundamentally. The Nazi regime had far-reaching ideas about how the individual should think and act. In "A Third Reich, as I See It" Janosch Steuwer examines the private diaries of ordinary Germans written between 1933 and 1939 and shows how average citizens reacted to the challenges of National Socialism. Some felt the urge and desire to adapt to the political circumstances. Others felt compelled to do so. They all contributed to the realization of the vision of a homogeneous, conflict-free, and "racially pure" society. In a detailed manner and with a convincing sense of the bigger picture, Steuwer shows how the tense efforts of people to fit in, and at the same time to preserve existing opinions and self-conceptions, led to a close intertwining of the private and the political. "A Third Reich, as I See It" offers a surprisingly new look at how the ideological visions of National Socialism found their way into the everyday reality of Germans.
"Was ist das Volk?"
"Volk" war einer der meistverwendeten Begriffe in der öffentlichen Sprache während des Umbruchs vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik. Doch welche Ideen verbanden die Sprecher der politischen Milieus von der Sozialdemokratie bis hin zum Nationalliberalismus mit ihm? "Volk" konnte entweder als Gemeinschaft gleichberechtigter Staatsbürger ("demos"), als Abstammungsgemeinschaft ("ethnos") oder als minderprivilegierte Schicht ("plebs") verstanden werden. Zudem ließ sich "Volk" als pluralistisches oder holistisches Gebilde denken. Die Sprache von "Volk", "Nation", "Einheit" und "Gemeinschaft" gibt wichtige Aufschlüsse darüber, welche Staats- und Gesellschaftskonzepte im diesbezüglich bislang nur wenig erforschten Spektrum der politischen Mitte vorherrschten. Jörn Retterath zeigt, dass es den der Republik nahestehenden Kräften nach der Novemberrevolution 1918 letztlich nicht gelang, eine der pluralistischen Demokratie angemessene Sprache zu etablieren. Stattdessen gewann das Denken in holistischen Kategorien an Einfluss. Den Nationalsozialisten wurde es so erleichtert, sich zunächst vieldeutiger Begriffe wie "Volkswille" und "Volksgemeinschaft" zu bemächtigen.
