A Companion to Nazi Germany

ISBN-13: 9781118936887 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 680 str.

Shelley Baranowski; Armin Nolzen; Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction 1Shelley Baranowski, Armin Nolzen, and Claus-Christian W. SzejnmannPart I Theories, Background, and Contexts 151 How Do We Explain the Rise of Nazism? Theory and Historiography 17Geoff Eley2 Organic Modernity: National Socialism as Alternative Modernism 33Konrad H. Jarausch3 The First World War and National Socialism 47Benjamin Ziemann4 The Collapse of the Weimar Parliamentary System 63Shelley Baranowski5 National Socialist Ideology 77Claus-Christian W. SzejnmannPart II Structures of Nazi Rule 956 The NSDAP After 1933: Members, Positions, Technologies, Interactions 97Armin Nolzen7 Work(ers) Under the Swastika 115Jens-Uwe Guettel8 Resistance 129Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann9 Centre and Periphery 147Thomas Schaarschmidt10 Information Policies and Linguistic Violence 163Thomas Pegelow Kaplan11 Education, Schooling, and Camps 181Kiran Klaus Patel12 Research and Scholarship 199Michael Gruttner13 Nazi Morality 215Thomas Kuhne14 The German Home Front Under the Bombs 231Richard Overy15 Total Defeat: War, Society, and Violence in the Last Year of National Socialism 247Sven KellerPart III Economy and Culture 26316 The Nazi Economy 265Stephen G. Gross17 National Socialism and German Business 281Kim Christian Priemel18 Individual Consumers and Consumption in Nazi Germany 299Pamela E. Swett19 Gender 315Elizabeth Harvey20 Religion 333Manfred Gailus21 Family and Private Life 351Lisa Pine22 Sports 367Frank Becker23 Cinema, Art, and Music 385Daniel Muhlenfeld24 Emotions and National Socialism 399Alexandra Przyrembel25 Environment 413Charles E. ClosmannPart IV Race, Imperialism, and Genocide 42926 Terror 431Dieter Pohl27 Flight and Exile 449Deborah Dwork28 Germany and the Outside World 465Lars Ludicke29 Social Militarization and Preparation for War, 1933-1939 483Jorg Echternkamp30 Race 499Isabel Heinemann31 Unfree and Forced Labour 517Marc Buggeln32 'Ethnic Germans' 533Alexa Stiller33 Ghettos 551Andrea Low34 Holocaust Studies: The Spatial Turn 565Wendy LowerPart V Legacies of Nazism 58135 Memories of Nazi Germany in the Federal Republic of Germany 583Aleida Assmann36 Remembering National Socialism in the German Democratic Republic 599David Clarke37 Presenting and Teaching the Past 615Karl Heinrich Pohl and Astrid SchwabeIndex 631

O autorze

Shelley Baranowski is Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at the University of Akron, Ohio.

Armin Nolzen, M.A., is a member of the editorial board of the "Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus."

Claus–Christian W. Szejnmann is Professor of Modern History at Loughborough University.

Blurb

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 has wrestled with multiple and complex issues. Did Nazism result from Germany′s long–term pathological development, or was it the most extreme outcome of European modernity? 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 antisemitism the driving force behind Nazism and to what extent did it mobilize the Third Reich?

A Companion to Nazi Germany addresses these crucial questions with historical insight from the Nazi Party′s emergence in the 1920s through its postwar repercussions. From the theory and context that gave rise to the movement, through its structural, cultural, economic, and social impacts, to the era′s lasting legacy, this book offers an in–depth examination of modern history′s most infamous reign.

• Assesses the historiography of Nazism and the prehistory of the regime
• Provides deep insight into labor, education, research, and home life amidst the Third Reich′s ideological imperatives
• Describes how the Third Reich affected business, the economy, and the culture, including sports, entertainment, and religion
• Delves into the social militarization in the lead–up to war, and examines the social and historical complexities that allowed genocide to take place
• Shows how modern–day Germany confronts and deals with its recent history

Today′s political climate highlights the critical need to understand how radical nationalist movements gain an audience, then followers, then power. While historical analogy can be a faulty basis for analyzing current events, there is no doubt that examining the parallels can lead to some important questions about the present. Exploring key motivations, environments, and cause and effect, this book provides essential perspective as radical nationalist movements have once again reemerged in many parts of the world.