The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present

ISBN-13: 9781108497497 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 408 str.

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

Opis

Ever since the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945, anxieties have persisted about unrepentant Nazis returning to power and establishing a Fourth Reich. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld explores the nightmare of a future that never happened and what it tells us about postwar Western political, intellectual, and cultural life.

Recenzje

'A leading practitioner of counterfactual history, Gavriel Rosenfeld has produced a fascinating account of the perils and pitfalls of our century-long obsession with the 'Fourth Reich.' In navigating a dizzying array of sources, drawn from politics, government archives, mass media, and popular culture, Rosenfeld examines 'the history of what might have happened' in order to 'better understand the memory of what actually did'.' Eric Kurlander, Central European History

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Between fantasy and nightmare: inventing the Fourth Reich in the Third Reich; 2. From werewolves to democrats: the Fourth Reich under Allied occupation; 3. The Fourth Reich turns right: renazifying Germany in the 1950s; 4. From Germany to the United States: universalizing the Fourth Reich in the turbulent 1960s; 5. Hitler in Argentina: fictionalizing the Fourth Reich in the long 1970s; 6. Re-Germanizing the Fourth Reich: from reunification to the Reich Citizens' Movement; Conclusion.