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.
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.
Das unbewusste Bewusste Johne, Maria
Forum der Psychoanalyse,
06/2023, Volume:
39, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
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.
Do financial crises radicalize voters? We study Germany's 1931 banking crisis, collecting new data on bank branches and firm-bank connections. Exploiting cross-sectional variation in precrisis ...exposure to the bank at the center of the crisis, we show that Nazi votes surged in locations more affected by its failure. Radicalization in response to the shock was exacerbated in cities with a history of anti-Semitism. After the Nazis seized power, both pogroms and deportations were more frequent in places affected by the banking crisis. Our results suggest an important synergy between financial distress and cultural predispositions, with far-reaching consequences.
This article studies accountability demands at an educational institution following extreme changes of societal conditions, as observed in Nazi Germany (1933-1945). We refer to the Handelshochschule ...Leipzig founded as the first free-standing business school in Germany to show how the Nazi doctrine made its way into this university, affecting academics on both the organizational and the individual levels. As political accountability became a dominant governance instrument, most academics submitted to this new accountability regime. They became subjects of accountability, who can only be understood by the norms that were imposed on them. The change in accountability demands created considerable challenges for individuals, and, ex post, it may be impossible to ascertain their moral attitudes and how they attempted to cope with ensuing ethical dilemmas.
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