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.
Das unbewusste Bewusste Johne, Maria
Forum der Psychoanalyse,
06/2023, Volume:
39, Issue:
2
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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'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.
German philosophy, famed for its high-minded Idealism, was plunged into crisis when Germany became an urban and industrial society in the late nineteenth century. The key figure of this shift was ...Immanuel Kant: seen for a century as the philosophical father of the nation, Kant seemed to lack crucial answers for violent and impersonal modern times. This book shows that the social and intellectual crisis that overturned Germany's traditions - a sense of profound spiritual confusion over where modern society was headed-was the same crisis that allowed Hitler to come to power. It also describes how German philosophers actively struggled to create a new kind of philosophy in an effort to understand social incoherence and technology's diminishing of the individual.
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.
Was Hitler A Riddle? is the first comparative study of how British, French, and American diplomats serving in Germany assessed Hitler and the Nazi movement. These assessments provided the governments ...in London, Paris, and Washington with ample information about the ruthlessness of the authorities in Germany and of their determination to conquer vast stretches of Europe. Had the British, French, and American leaders acted on this information and taken measures to rein in Hitler, the history of the twentieth century would have been far less bloody: the second world war might well have been avoided, the Soviet Union would not have expanded into central and eastern Europe, and the world would have been spared the Cold War.
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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