This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the ...most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw's research on the Holocaust for the first time. The writings are arranged in three sections-Hitler and the Final Solution, popular opinion and the Jews in Nazi Germany, and the Final Solution in historiography-and Kershaw provides an introduction and a closing section on the uniqueness of Nazism.
Kershaw was a founding historian of the social history of the Third Reich, and he has throughout his career conducted pioneering research on the societal causes and consequences of Nazi policy. His work has brought much to light concerning the ways in which the attitudes of the German populace shaped and did not shape Nazi policy. This volume presents a comprehensive, multifaceted picture both of the destructive dynamic of the Nazi leadership and of the attitudes and behavior of ordinary Germans as the persecution of the Jews spiraled into total genocide.
Hitler's Theology Bucher, Rainer; Pohl, Rebecca; Hoelzl, Michael
2011, 2011-06-30
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Hitler's Theology investigates the use of theological motifs in Adolf Hitler's public speeches and writings, and offers an answer to the question of why Hitler and his theo-political ideology were so ...attractive and successful presenting an alternative to the discontents of modernity. The book gives a systematic reconstruction of Hitler's use of theological concepts like providence, belief or the almighty God. Rainer Bucher argues that Hitler's (ab)use of theological ideas is one of the main reasons why and how Hitler gained so much acquiescence and support for his diabolic enterprise. This fascinating study concludes by contextualizing Hitler's theology in terms of a wider theory of modernity and in particular by analyzing the churches' struggle with modernity. Finally, the author evaluates the use of theology from a practical theological perspective. This book will be of interest to students of Religious Studies, Theology, Holocaust Studies, Jewish Studies, Religion and Politics, and German History.
In February 1942, barely two months after he had declared war on the United States, Adolf Hitler praised America's great industrial achievements and admitted that Germany would need some time to ...catch up. The Americans, he said, had shown the way in developing the most efficient methods of production-especially in iron and coal, which formed the basis of modern industrial civilization. He also touted America's superiority in the field of transportation, particularly the automobile. He loved automobiles and saw in Henry Ford a great hero of the industrial age. Hitler's personal train was even code-named "Amerika." InHitler and America, historian Klaus P. Fischer seeks to understand more deeply how Hitler viewed America, the nation that was central to Germany's defeat. He reveals Hitler's split-minded image of America:AmericaandAmerika. Hitler would loudly call the United States a feeble country while at the same time referring to it as an industrial colossus worthy of imitation. Or he would belittle America in the vilest terms while at the same time looking at the latest photos from the United States, watching American films, and amusing himself with Mickey Mouse cartoons. America was a place that Hitler admired-for the can-do spirit of the American people, which he attributed to their Nordic blood-and envied-for its enormous territorial size, abundant resources, and political power.Amerika, however, was to Hitler a mongrel nation, grown too rich too soon and governed by a capitalist elite with strong ties to the Jews. Across the Atlantic, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had his own, far more realistically grounded views of Hitler. Fischer contrasts these with the misconceptions and misunderstandings that caused Hitler, in the end, to see only Amerika, not America, and led to his defeat.
A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes†‹From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two ...developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally.In this highly readable book, Goeschel, a scholar of twentieth-century Germany and Italy, revisits all of Mussolini and Hitler's key meetings and asks how these meetings constructed a powerful image of a strong Fascist-Nazi relationship that still resonates with the general public. His portrait of Mussolini draws on sources ranging beyond political history to reveal a leader who, at times, shaped Hitler's decisions and was not the gullible buffoon he's often portrayed as. The first comprehensive study of the Mussolini-Hitler relationship, this book is a must-read for scholars and anyone interested in the history of European fascism, World War II, or political leadership.
Introduction. Historians of World War II have in one way or another drawn attention to the role of the “oil factor” when planning military operations of the Nazi German command in their research. In ...the proposed article the author, for the first time, consistently and comprehensively has traced the evolution of Adolf Hitler’s strategy towards the conquest of the oil fields in the Caucasus as part of the Nazi German government’s plan for world domination. The lower chronological border (1940) is defined by the year when the first military plans of Nazi German’s leadership for capture of oil reserves in the Caucasus were developed. The upper chronological border is defined by the end of the military operations in the city of Stalingrad and in the Caucasus, which put an end to the “global ideas” of the Nazi German command. Methods and materials. The methodology of the research is based on the application of both traditional methods of historical and economic sciences (comparative, statistical, problemchronological) and new approaches (factor analysis, elements of behaviorist method, involving analysis of the actions of actors, procedures for making certain decisions depending on their value priorities, character traits). The author of the article utilized an interdisciplinary approach towards their research, given that it helped to achieve the goal of the study. The conclusions are based on the documents of the national archives, memoirs of military leaders, statistical information, etc. In the course of the work the authors collected and analyzed a significant amount of archival material, examined domestic and foreign historiography on the subject. Analysis. Thus, the article has analyzed the indicators of oil balance of Nazi Germany in the certain period and examined peculiarities and changes of the “oil” directives in the military strategic plans of the Nazi German command. Results. Through the analysis of Adolf Hitler’s “oil strategy”, the authors of the article have revealed the influence of the “oil factor” in Nazi Germany’s military and political decisions and general causes of failures of the military operations near Stalingrad and the Caucasus.
Das unbewusste Bewusste Johne, Maria
Forum der Psychoanalyse,
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Anhand einer Falldarstellung aus der dritten Generation Ost, zu denen die Geburtsjahrgänge 1975–1985 in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (DDR) zählen, wird gezeigt, warum die rechtsradikalen ...Ideale der NS-Zeit nach dem Fall der Mauer in dieser Generation wieder auftauchten. Das hatte schwere Folgen für die ostdeutsche Nachwende-Gesellschaft. Eine Abwehr von Schuld und Verantwortung bei den NS-Tätern hatte nach der narzisstischen Kränkung durch den verlorenen Krieg und nach dem Verlust ihres idealisierten Objekts Adolf Hitler nicht zum erwarteten psychischen Zusammenbruch im Volk der Täter geführt, sondern zu einer Kryptisierung, die ein individuelles Leugnen und Vergessen ermöglicht hat. Dies wurde in der ehemaligen DDR durch den antifaschistischen Gründungsmythos begünstigt und hat vielen NS-Tätern und Mitläufern eine Eingliederung auch in die sozialistische Gesellschaft ermöglicht.Durch den erneuten tiefgreifenden Umbruch der 1990er-Jahre wurden viele Wendekinder haltlos und von ihren Eltern alleingelassen. Sie waren der besonderen Gefahr ausgesetzt, sich rechtsradikalen Gruppen, die damals viele ostdeutsche Kleinstädte beherrschten, anzuschließen. Wie sie damit unbewusst das kryptisierte Erbe ihrer Großelterngeneration weiterführen, wird mittels der Fallvignette veranschaulicht.
David King se sumerge en su último libro en un episodio que, inconcebiblemente, había recibido escasa atención por parte de los estudios sobre el movimiento nazi: el putsch de Múnich de 1923 y el ...posterior proceso judicial contra Adolf Hitler y demás implicados. Sin embargo, como demuestra el historiador estadounidense, dichos sucesos fueron claves al aportar el capital simbólico, y el altavoz perfectamente instrumentalizado por Hitler, que permitió que, lo que hasta entonces había sido un pequeño partido con escaso eco más allá de Baviera, fuera conocido en el resto de Alemania e, incluso, fuera del país. La obra de King, profesor de historia europea en la Universidad de Kentucky, se trata del primer estudio publicado fuera de Alemania sobre estos acontecimientos. How the conquerors of Napoleon made love, war, and peace at the Congress of Vienna» (2008) o, especialmente, «Death In The City Of Light: The Serial Killer Of Nazi-Occupied Paris» (2011), obras que, desgraciadamente, no han sido traducidas al castellano.
Hitler at Home Stratigakos, Despina
2015, 2015-09-29
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A look at Adolf Hitler's residences and their role in constructing and promoting the dictator's private persona both within Germany and abroad. Adolf Hitler's makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman ...coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during the mid-1930s. This provocative book exposes the dictator's preoccupation with his private persona, which was shaped by the aesthetic and ideological management of his domestic architecture. Hitler's bachelor life stirred rumors, and the Nazi regime relied on the dictator's three dwellings—the Old Chancellery in Berlin, his apartment in Munich, and the Berghof, his mountain home on the Obersalzberg—to foster the myth of the Führer as a morally upstanding and refined man. Author Despina Stratigakos also reveals the previously untold story of Hitler's interior designer, Gerdy Troost, through newly discovered archival sources. At the height of the Third Reich, media outlets around the world showcased Hitler's homes to audiences eager for behind-the-scenes stories. After the war, fascination with Hitler's domestic life continued as soldiers and journalists searched his dwellings for insights into his psychology. The book's rich illustrations, many previously unpublished, offer readers a rare glimpse into the decisions involved in the making of Hitler's homes and into the sheer power of the propaganda that influenced how the world saw him. "Inarguably the powder-keg title of the year."—Mitchell Owen, Architectural Digest "A fascinating read, which reminds us that in Nazi Germany the architectural and the political can never be disentangled. Like his own confected image, Hitler's buildings cannot be divorced from their odious political hinterland."—Roger Moorhouse, Times
Hitler's Library Miskolczy, Ambrus
2003, 20030810, c2003., 2003-08-10
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The first book to present the so-called Hitler Library. It sheds new light on the readings of Hitler and on his techniques how to read a book. Hitler presented himself as an ideal reader of ...Schopenhauer, nevertheless his remarks destroy that image, particularly if we see how he read Ernst Jünger, Richard Wagner, or Paul de Lagarde, and how he reread Mein Kampf. The book describes the gnostic character of the phenomenon as an explication of the success of nazism and that of the Hitler myth and challenges the static views of traditional historiography.
After Germany's humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country's brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the Führer's erratic ...decision making. The author of three highly acclaimed books on the era, Stephen Fritz upends this characterization of Hitler as an ill-informed fantasist and demonstrates the ways in which his strategy was coherent and even competent.That Hitler saw World War II as the only way to retrieve Germany's fortunes and build an expansionist Thousand-Year Reich is uncontroversial. But while his generals did sometimes object to Hitler's tactics and operational direction, they often made the same errors in judgment and were in agreement regarding larger strategic and political goals. A necessary volume for understanding the influence of World War I on Hitler's thinking, this work is also an eye-opening reappraisal of major events like the invasion of Russia and the battle for Normandy.
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