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A Companion to Nazi Germany.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History SeriesPublisher: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (683 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118936900
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Companion to Nazi GermanyDDC classification:
  • 943.086
LOC classification:
  • DD256.5 .C667 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Theories, Background, and Contexts -- Chapter 1 How Do We Explain the Rise of Nazism?: Theory and Historiography -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2 Organic Modernity:: National Socialism as Alternative Modernism -- 2.1 Reactionary Aspects -- 2.2 Modern Dimensions -- 2.3 Biological Politics -- 2.4 The Organic Alternative -- References -- Chapter 3 The First World War and National Socialism -- 3.1 Radical Nationalism and Antisemitism Through War and Defeat -- 3.2 Brutalization: Violence as a Legacy of the Great War -- 3.3 Mythologies of the War Experience -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4 The Collapse of the Weimar Parliamentary System -- 4.1 The Irony of German Weakness: The Defeat of Putschism, and American Economic Intervention -- 4.2 Fragmentation and Radicalization on the Right -- 4.3 Why the Nazis? -- 4.4 Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5 National Socialist Ideology -- 5.1 Historiography -- 5.2 Nazi Ideology 'from below' -- 5.3 Was There a Core Set of Beliefs? -- 5.4 Towards a Social and Cultural History of Nazi ideology -- 5.5 Conclusions -- References -- Further Reading -- Part II Structures of Nazi Rule -- Chapter 6 The NSDAP After 1933: Members, Positions, Technologies, Interactions -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Membership Growth, Means of Motivation -- 6.3 Positions, Functionaries -- 6.4 Technologies, Decision Programmes -- 6.5 Interactions, Issues -- 6.6 Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7 Work(ers) Under the Swastika -- 7.1 Destruction, Integration, and Resistance: Labour in Germany, 1933-1945 -- 7.2 Scholarship on Organized Labour, the Demise of the Weimar Republic, and National Socialism since 1945 -- 7.3 Conclusion -- References.
Further Reading -- Chapter 8 Resistance -- 8.1 Widerstand - An Ambiguous Term and Concept with Different Meanings -- 8.2 Periods and Types of Resistance in Nazi Germany -- 8.3 The Wide Range of Resistance and Nonconformity in Nazi Germany: Organizations, Social Milieus, and Individuals -- 8.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9 Centre and Periphery -- 9.1 Towards a Centralized Dictatorship -- 9.2 The Formation of New Regional Authorities -- 9.3 The Nazi Political System Under Pressure of War -- 9.4 Conclusions -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 10 Information Policies and Linguistic Violence -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Structures and Forms of Nazi Information Policies and Linguistic Violence, 1933-1939 -- 10.3 A Case Study in Nazi Information Policies and Linguistic Violence: The 1938 November Pogroms -- 10.4 Nazi Information Policies at War, 1939-1945 -- 10.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 11 Education, Schooling, and Camps -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Continuities with Earlier Ideas and the Nazi Approach -- 11.3 Exclusion and Positive Inclusion in Nazi Education -- 11.4 The Pivotal Function of Camps -- 11.5 Actors and Their Room for Manoeuvre -- 11.6 Organizing Nazi Education -- 11.7 'Total' Pretence Versus Practice on the Ground -- 11.8 Embracing the Nazi Agenda -- 11.9 Long-term Effects -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 12 Research and Scholarship -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The German Science and Research Landscape in 1932-1933 -- 12.3 Research and Science -- 12.4 Expansion -- 12.5 Cleansing German Scholarship -- 12.6 Scholars and Nazism -- 12.7 Scholarship: Changes after 1933 -- 12.8 Scholarship and Nazi Crimes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 13 Nazi Morality -- 13.1 Historicizing Morality -- 13.2 Building the Nazi Morality.
13.3 Practising Moralities -- 13.4 Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 14 The German Home Front Under the Bombs -- 14.1 Life and Work on the Home Front -- 14.2 The Home Front and the War -- 14.3 Bombing and the Home Front -- 14.4 The Hard Logic of Total War -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 15 Total Defeat: War, Society, and Violence in the Last Year of National Socialism -- 15.1 Military Setbacks -- 15.2 Nazi Rule and Internal Crises -- 15.3 Total War and the Volksgemeinschaft -- 15.4 Nazi Violence -- 15.5 The Impact of Defeat -- References -- Further Reading -- Part III Economy and Culture -- Chapter 16 The Nazi Economy -- 16.1 Imperialism -- 16.2 Crises -- 16.3 Capitalism under the Nazis -- 16.4 'Aryanization' -- 16.5 The Second World War and the Legacy of the Third Reich -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 17 National Socialism and German Business -- 17.1 Historiography -- 17.2 Neither Theory nor Blueprint -- 17.3 Winning over Business -- 17.4 The Politics of Regulation -- 17.5 Recovery and Rearmament -- 17.6 War -- 17.7 Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 18 Individual Consumers and Consumption in Nazi Germany -- 18.1 The Nazi Party and State‐Sanctioned Consumption -- 18.2 Individual Consumers, the Private Sector, and the Four Year Plan -- 18.3 The War Years -- References -- Chapter 19 Gender -- 19.1 Convergence and Difference: Gender, Exclusion, and Persecution after 1933 -- 19.2 Sworn Comrades: the Gender Order and Nazi Activism -- 19.3 'Boundless Expansion' and Boundaries of Gender and Race: Conquest, Genocide, and Forced Labour -- 19.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 20 Religion -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 Protestants: Battle Between Brothers in Their Own House -- 20.3 Catholics -- 20.4 Christian Solidarity with Persecuted Jews? -- 20.5 Small Religious Bodies.
20.6 'German Believers' and 'Believers in God' -- 20.7 The Nazi Regime - a 'Political Religion'? -- 20.8 Religious Historical Changes During the War, 1939-1945 -- 20.9 Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 21 Family and Private Life -- 21.1 The Family in the Weimar Republic -- 21.2 Nazi Family Policies -- 21.3 The Hilfswerk 'Mutter und Kind' -- 21.4 'Inferior' Families -- 21.5 The Impact of the Second World War on Family Life -- 21.6 Private Life -- 21.7 Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 22 Sports -- 22.1 Introduction: Sports and Volksgemeinschaft -- 22.2 The Concept of the Human -- 22.3 Forming the Body -- 22.4 Bodily Experience and 'Racial Identity' -- 22.5 Antisemitism -- 22.6 Education -- 22.7 Organized Popular Sports -- 22.8 Work and Leisure -- 22.9 Performative Aspects: the Self‐Representation of the Volksgemeinschaft -- 22.10 Culture of the Masses -- 22.11 External Effect -- 22.12 Disposition to Fight -- 22.13 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 23 Cinema, Art, and Music -- 23.1 Introduction -- 23.2 Cultural Policy in Nazi Germany -- 23.3 The Artists' Perspective -- 23.4 Consuming Cinema, Art, and Music in the Third Reich -- 23.5 Still En Route Towards a Social History of the Third Reich -- References -- Chapter 24 Emotions and National Socialism -- 24.1 Between Comradeship and Devotion: Women's Love for Hitler -- 24.2 Between Hostility and Honour: 'Race Defilement' and Practices of Antisemitism in Court -- 24.3 Mixed Feelings in Nazi Germany -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 25 Environment -- References -- Further Reading -- Part IV Race, Imperialism, and Genocide -- Chapter 26 Terror -- 26.1 Introduction -- 26.2 The Archaeology of Nazi Violence -- 26.3 The Reichstag Fire as Nazi Terror's Starting Point.
26.4 Institutionalizing Terror, 1934 to 1937/1938 -- 26.5 Military Expansion and the Escalation of Terror -- 26.6 From Individual Terror to Mass Murder -- 26.7 The Fateful Year 1941 and the War against the Soviet Union -- 26.8 Terror after the Military Defeat in Stalingrad, 1942-1943 -- 26.9 Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 27 Flight and Exile -- 27.1 Current Scholarship -- 27.2 European Diasporas and 'Homecomings' after the First World War -- 27.3 Nazi-era Refugee Movement before the Second World War -- 27.4 Destination Palestine -- 27.5 From the November Pogrom Through the War Years -- 27.6 The Challenges of Émigré Life -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 28 Germany and the Outside World -- 28.1 Introduction -- 28.2 'Seizure of Power': Reactions -- 28.3 'Peace Politics' and Rearmament -- 28.4 Strategies and Treaties -- 28.5 The Personnel of Foreign Policy: Structure and Development -- 28.6 Expansion and War Preparations -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 29 Social Militarization and Preparation for War, 1933-1939 -- 29.1 Introduction -- 29.2 The Military as the Driving Force for Militarization in the Nazi State -- 29.3 The NSDAP and Its Organizations as Militarization Agencies -- 29.4 Image of War -- 29.5 Summary -- Note -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 30 Race -- 30.1 Introduction -- 30.2 New Frontiers? International Race Theories and Racial Policies -- 30.3 Race Theories: Scientific and Popular Racism since the Nineteenth Century -- 30.4 Everyday Life: Assessing the Social Through Biological Categories -- 30.5 Racial Policies: Euthanasia, Ethnic Cleansing, Holocaust -- 30.6 Conclusion: An Extremely Racist Society -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 31 Unfree and Forced Labour -- 31.1 Forced Labour Until 1933: German Practices and International Debates.
31.2 Unfree Work in Germany, 1933-1939.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Theories, Background, and Contexts -- Chapter 1 How Do We Explain the Rise of Nazism?: Theory and Historiography -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2 Organic Modernity:: National Socialism as Alternative Modernism -- 2.1 Reactionary Aspects -- 2.2 Modern Dimensions -- 2.3 Biological Politics -- 2.4 The Organic Alternative -- References -- Chapter 3 The First World War and National Socialism -- 3.1 Radical Nationalism and Antisemitism Through War and Defeat -- 3.2 Brutalization: Violence as a Legacy of the Great War -- 3.3 Mythologies of the War Experience -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4 The Collapse of the Weimar Parliamentary System -- 4.1 The Irony of German Weakness: The Defeat of Putschism, and American Economic Intervention -- 4.2 Fragmentation and Radicalization on the Right -- 4.3 Why the Nazis? -- 4.4 Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5 National Socialist Ideology -- 5.1 Historiography -- 5.2 Nazi Ideology 'from below' -- 5.3 Was There a Core Set of Beliefs? -- 5.4 Towards a Social and Cultural History of Nazi ideology -- 5.5 Conclusions -- References -- Further Reading -- Part II Structures of Nazi Rule -- Chapter 6 The NSDAP After 1933: Members, Positions, Technologies, Interactions -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Membership Growth, Means of Motivation -- 6.3 Positions, Functionaries -- 6.4 Technologies, Decision Programmes -- 6.5 Interactions, Issues -- 6.6 Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7 Work(ers) Under the Swastika -- 7.1 Destruction, Integration, and Resistance: Labour in Germany, 1933-1945 -- 7.2 Scholarship on Organized Labour, the Demise of the Weimar Republic, and National Socialism since 1945 -- 7.3 Conclusion -- References.

Further Reading -- Chapter 8 Resistance -- 8.1 Widerstand - An Ambiguous Term and Concept with Different Meanings -- 8.2 Periods and Types of Resistance in Nazi Germany -- 8.3 The Wide Range of Resistance and Nonconformity in Nazi Germany: Organizations, Social Milieus, and Individuals -- 8.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9 Centre and Periphery -- 9.1 Towards a Centralized Dictatorship -- 9.2 The Formation of New Regional Authorities -- 9.3 The Nazi Political System Under Pressure of War -- 9.4 Conclusions -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 10 Information Policies and Linguistic Violence -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Structures and Forms of Nazi Information Policies and Linguistic Violence, 1933-1939 -- 10.3 A Case Study in Nazi Information Policies and Linguistic Violence: The 1938 November Pogroms -- 10.4 Nazi Information Policies at War, 1939-1945 -- 10.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 11 Education, Schooling, and Camps -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Continuities with Earlier Ideas and the Nazi Approach -- 11.3 Exclusion and Positive Inclusion in Nazi Education -- 11.4 The Pivotal Function of Camps -- 11.5 Actors and Their Room for Manoeuvre -- 11.6 Organizing Nazi Education -- 11.7 'Total' Pretence Versus Practice on the Ground -- 11.8 Embracing the Nazi Agenda -- 11.9 Long-term Effects -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 12 Research and Scholarship -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The German Science and Research Landscape in 1932-1933 -- 12.3 Research and Science -- 12.4 Expansion -- 12.5 Cleansing German Scholarship -- 12.6 Scholars and Nazism -- 12.7 Scholarship: Changes after 1933 -- 12.8 Scholarship and Nazi Crimes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 13 Nazi Morality -- 13.1 Historicizing Morality -- 13.2 Building the Nazi Morality.

13.3 Practising Moralities -- 13.4 Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 14 The German Home Front Under the Bombs -- 14.1 Life and Work on the Home Front -- 14.2 The Home Front and the War -- 14.3 Bombing and the Home Front -- 14.4 The Hard Logic of Total War -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 15 Total Defeat: War, Society, and Violence in the Last Year of National Socialism -- 15.1 Military Setbacks -- 15.2 Nazi Rule and Internal Crises -- 15.3 Total War and the Volksgemeinschaft -- 15.4 Nazi Violence -- 15.5 The Impact of Defeat -- References -- Further Reading -- Part III Economy and Culture -- Chapter 16 The Nazi Economy -- 16.1 Imperialism -- 16.2 Crises -- 16.3 Capitalism under the Nazis -- 16.4 'Aryanization' -- 16.5 The Second World War and the Legacy of the Third Reich -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 17 National Socialism and German Business -- 17.1 Historiography -- 17.2 Neither Theory nor Blueprint -- 17.3 Winning over Business -- 17.4 The Politics of Regulation -- 17.5 Recovery and Rearmament -- 17.6 War -- 17.7 Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 18 Individual Consumers and Consumption in Nazi Germany -- 18.1 The Nazi Party and State‐Sanctioned Consumption -- 18.2 Individual Consumers, the Private Sector, and the Four Year Plan -- 18.3 The War Years -- References -- Chapter 19 Gender -- 19.1 Convergence and Difference: Gender, Exclusion, and Persecution after 1933 -- 19.2 Sworn Comrades: the Gender Order and Nazi Activism -- 19.3 'Boundless Expansion' and Boundaries of Gender and Race: Conquest, Genocide, and Forced Labour -- 19.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 20 Religion -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 Protestants: Battle Between Brothers in Their Own House -- 20.3 Catholics -- 20.4 Christian Solidarity with Persecuted Jews? -- 20.5 Small Religious Bodies.

20.6 'German Believers' and 'Believers in God' -- 20.7 The Nazi Regime - a 'Political Religion'? -- 20.8 Religious Historical Changes During the War, 1939-1945 -- 20.9 Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 21 Family and Private Life -- 21.1 The Family in the Weimar Republic -- 21.2 Nazi Family Policies -- 21.3 The Hilfswerk 'Mutter und Kind' -- 21.4 'Inferior' Families -- 21.5 The Impact of the Second World War on Family Life -- 21.6 Private Life -- 21.7 Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 22 Sports -- 22.1 Introduction: Sports and Volksgemeinschaft -- 22.2 The Concept of the Human -- 22.3 Forming the Body -- 22.4 Bodily Experience and 'Racial Identity' -- 22.5 Antisemitism -- 22.6 Education -- 22.7 Organized Popular Sports -- 22.8 Work and Leisure -- 22.9 Performative Aspects: the Self‐Representation of the Volksgemeinschaft -- 22.10 Culture of the Masses -- 22.11 External Effect -- 22.12 Disposition to Fight -- 22.13 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 23 Cinema, Art, and Music -- 23.1 Introduction -- 23.2 Cultural Policy in Nazi Germany -- 23.3 The Artists' Perspective -- 23.4 Consuming Cinema, Art, and Music in the Third Reich -- 23.5 Still En Route Towards a Social History of the Third Reich -- References -- Chapter 24 Emotions and National Socialism -- 24.1 Between Comradeship and Devotion: Women's Love for Hitler -- 24.2 Between Hostility and Honour: 'Race Defilement' and Practices of Antisemitism in Court -- 24.3 Mixed Feelings in Nazi Germany -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 25 Environment -- References -- Further Reading -- Part IV Race, Imperialism, and Genocide -- Chapter 26 Terror -- 26.1 Introduction -- 26.2 The Archaeology of Nazi Violence -- 26.3 The Reichstag Fire as Nazi Terror's Starting Point.

26.4 Institutionalizing Terror, 1934 to 1937/1938 -- 26.5 Military Expansion and the Escalation of Terror -- 26.6 From Individual Terror to Mass Murder -- 26.7 The Fateful Year 1941 and the War against the Soviet Union -- 26.8 Terror after the Military Defeat in Stalingrad, 1942-1943 -- 26.9 Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 27 Flight and Exile -- 27.1 Current Scholarship -- 27.2 European Diasporas and 'Homecomings' after the First World War -- 27.3 Nazi-era Refugee Movement before the Second World War -- 27.4 Destination Palestine -- 27.5 From the November Pogrom Through the War Years -- 27.6 The Challenges of Émigré Life -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 28 Germany and the Outside World -- 28.1 Introduction -- 28.2 'Seizure of Power': Reactions -- 28.3 'Peace Politics' and Rearmament -- 28.4 Strategies and Treaties -- 28.5 The Personnel of Foreign Policy: Structure and Development -- 28.6 Expansion and War Preparations -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 29 Social Militarization and Preparation for War, 1933-1939 -- 29.1 Introduction -- 29.2 The Military as the Driving Force for Militarization in the Nazi State -- 29.3 The NSDAP and Its Organizations as Militarization Agencies -- 29.4 Image of War -- 29.5 Summary -- Note -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 30 Race -- 30.1 Introduction -- 30.2 New Frontiers? International Race Theories and Racial Policies -- 30.3 Race Theories: Scientific and Popular Racism since the Nineteenth Century -- 30.4 Everyday Life: Assessing the Social Through Biological Categories -- 30.5 Racial Policies: Euthanasia, Ethnic Cleansing, Holocaust -- 30.6 Conclusion: An Extremely Racist Society -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 31 Unfree and Forced Labour -- 31.1 Forced Labour Until 1933: German Practices and International Debates.

31.2 Unfree Work in Germany, 1933-1939.

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