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Stormtroopers
The first full history of the Nazi Stormtroopers whose muscle brought Hitler to power, with revelations concerning their longevity and their contributions to the Holocaust Germany’s Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the National Socialists to power in the 1930s. Known also as the SA or Brownshirts, these “ordinary” men waged a loosely structured campaign of intimidation and savagery across the nation from the 1920s to the “Night of the Long Knives” in 1934, when Chief of Staff Ernst Röhm and many other SA leaders were assassinated on Hitler’s orders. In this deeply researched history, Daniel Siemens explores not only the roots of the SA and its swift decapitation but also its previously unrecognized transformation into a million-member Nazi organization, its activities in German-occupied territories during World War II, and its particular contributions to the Holocaust. The author provides portraits of individual members and their victims and examines their milieu, culture, and ideology. His book tells the long-overdue story of the SA and its devastating impact on German citizens and the fate of their country.
Transnational Imaginations of Socialism
Town twinning refers to the postwar phenomenon of administrative exchange between analogous municipalities. Cold War-related research has mostly interpreted it as an instrument to pursue European integration, or to solidify détente "from below". However, municipalities were not only administrative, neutral actors, but also bearers of political content. This is particularly visible in the case of Italian towns located in the Western bloc, guided by socialist-oriented administrations, and their "twin" counterparts in the German Democratic Republic. This volume explores the connections initiated by such towns in the 1960s-1970s, focusing on socialist-specific conceptions which fueled the polic...
Recuperating The Global Migration of Nurses
Sitting at the nexus of labor migration and health care work, this book examines the dynamic relationship between nurses’ cross-border movement and efforts to regulate their migration. Grounded in multi-sited qualitative research, this volume analyzes the changing social dimensions and transnational scale of global nursing, focusing particularly on the recruitment from the Philippines to Germany. The flow of nursing skills from resource-poor countries to well-off ones is not only producing a global care crisis, but also serves as a prime example of the international race for talent and skill. As it takes a critical eye to the emerging field of migration governance or management as the preferred policy response to competing discourses of global care crises and the global competition for skilled care work, this book highlights not only the shifting web of actors, discourses, and practices in care work migration management, but also, and more importantly, how various forms of care figure in the global migration of nurses.
Unter alliierter Besatzung
Mit der Invasion Siziliens durch britische und US-Einheiten im Juli 1943 begann auch die Militärverwaltung durch die Alliierten in Italien. Der Zusammenbruch des faschistischen Regimes, der Waffenstillstand zwischen den Alliierten und Italien und der italienische Frontenwechsel änderten deren Bedingungen und Kontexte massiv. Ohnehin verlor die weitreichende Vorbereitung auf die Besatzung bei der Konfrontation mit süditalienischen Dorfstrukturen und Stadtgesellschaften rasch an Wert. An diesem Punkt setzt die Studie ein, die mit einem praxistheoretisch informierten transnationalen Ansatz einen Beitrag zur Geschichte des Zweiten Weltkriegs im Mittelmeerraum leistet. Sie untersucht die zahlr...
Mussolini and the Eclipse of Italian Fascism
An incisive account of how Mussolini pioneered populism in reaction to Hitler's rise--and thereby reinforced his role as a model for later authoritarian leaders On the tenth anniversary of his rise to power in 1932, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) seemed to many the "good dictator." He was the first totalitarian and the first fascist in modern Europe. But a year later Hitler's entrance onto the political stage signaled a German takeover of the fascist ideology. In this definitive account, eminent historian R.J.B. Bosworth charts Mussolini's leadership in reaction to Hitler. Bosworth shows how Italy's decline in ideological pre-eminence, as well as in military and diplomatic power, led Mussolini to pursue a more populist approach: angry and bellicose words at home, violent aggression abroad, and a more extreme emphasis on charisma. In his embittered efforts to bolster an increasingly hollow and ruthless regime, it was Mussolini, rather than Hitler, who offered the model for all subsequent authoritarians.
Die Sexualisierung der Religion im 20. Jahrhundert
Religiöse Kontroversen um Sexualerziehung, Abtreibung und Homosexualität prägen seit Jahrzehnten Alltag und Politik in den USA. Allerdings wissen wir bisher wenig darüber, wie protestantische Mainline-Kirchen an diesem Prozess partizipierten. Jana Hoffmanns Studie setzt hier an und untersucht am Beispiel der United Methodist Church, wie sich religiöse Sexualitätsdiskurse im Laufe des 20. Jahrhunderts veränderten und welchen Einfluss sie auf religiöse Familien-, Ehe- und Geschlechtervorstellungen hatten. Die Autorin zeigt hierbei, dass Mainline-Protestanten nicht nur auf gesellschaftliche Veränderungen reagierten, sondern sie aktiv anstießen, beeinflussten und mitgestalteten. So gel...
"Volksgemeinschaft" hinter Stacheldraht
Mehrere hunderttausend Männer und Frauen erlebten die unmittelbare Nachkriegszeit über Monate oder Jahre hinweg in Internierungslagern. Die Internierten selbst, ihre Erfahrungen und Strategien, fanden aber bislang nur wenig Beachtung. Ihr Umgang mit der nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit, ihr Alltag im Lager sowie ihre Reintegration in die junge Bundesrepublik werden hier deshalb erstmals systematisch analysiert. Kerstin Schulte untersucht, welche Rolle dabei Vorstellungen von „Volksgemeinschaft" spielten und fragt, inwiefern sie zu einem entscheidenden Teil erst danach, in den Internierungslagern, geprägt wurden und sich damit nicht allein aus den Erfahrungen der Jahre 1933 bis 1945 ableiteten. Sie zeigt, dass es neben dem eigenen Erleben des Nationalsozialismus gerade die gemeinsamen Lagererfahrungen waren, welche die öffentlichen Äußerungen vieler Deutscher zur jüngsten Vergangenheit in den folgenden Jahren bestimmten. Erst in den Lagern waren jene Narrative des Redens wie Beschweigens erdacht, kommuniziert und intergenerationell ausgehandelt worden, auf die sich dann der Konsens der Täter in der jungen Bundesrepublik stützte.
La fiera delle falsità
Il 24 marzo 1944, 335 persone vengono fucilate a Roma, nelle Cave Ardeatine. Non è l’unico crimine nazifascista in Italia né quello più sanguinoso. Eppure, a ottant’anni di distanza, continua a suscitare polemiche. Perché quella strage produce ancora oggi leggende, racconti sbagliati, falsificazioni, errori, menzogne? A partire da questo interrogativo prende avvio il dialogo tra Lutz Klinkhammer e Alessandro Portelli: uno storico tedesco, autore di studi decisivi sull’occupazione nazista in Italia, e uno dei fondatori della storia orale, che con L’ordine è già stato eseguito ha segnato una tappa fondamentale nella ricerca sulle Ardeatine. In questo ascolto reciproco, i due appr...
Vergleichen in der Konkurrenz
Die Eisen- und Stahlindustrie ist seit dem ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert international vernetzt. Wichtiger Bestandteil der ökonomischen Austausch- und Konkurrenzbeziehungen war eine bisher kaum beachtete sozial und kulturell wirkmächtige Praxis: Branchenakteure verglichen ihre Industrie mit ihrer Konkurrenz in anderen Ländern. In der konjunkturanfälligen Stahlindustrie war ein besonderes Bedürfnis zu beobachten, die eigenen Leistungen und Errungenschaften im Spiegel der internationalen Konkurrenz zu bewerten und das eigene ökonomische Handeln orientieren zu können. Welche Rolle spielten Vergleichspraktiken innerhalb der Konkurrenz? Diese Frage beantwortet die Studie für die deutsche und US-amerikanische Eisen- und Stahlindustrie in der Zeit zwischen den 1870er und den 1930er Jahren.
History in Times of Unprecedented Change
Our understanding of ourselves and the world as historical has drastically changed since the postwar period, yet this emerging historical sensibility has not been appropriately explained in a coherent theory of history. In this book, Zoltán Simon argues that instead of seeing the past, the present and the future together on a temporal continuum as history, we now expect unprecedented change to happen in the future (in visions of the future of technology, ecology and nuclear warfare) and we look at the past by assuming that such changes have already happened. This radical theory of history challenges narrative conceptualizations of history which assume a past potential of humanity unfolding over time to reach future fulfillment and seeks new ways of conceptualizing the altered socio-cultural concerns Western societies are currently facing. By creating a novel set of concepts to make sense of our altered historical condition regarding both history understood as the course of human affairs and historical writing, History in Times of Unprecedented Change offers a highly original and engaging take on the state of history and historical theory in the present and beyond.
