Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft and the dynamics of racial exclusion : violence against Jews in provincial Germany, 1919-1939

Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft and the dynamics of racial exclusion : violence against Jews in provincial Germany, 1919-1939 / Michael Wildt ; translated from the German by Bernard Heise

In the spring of 1933, German society was deeply divided - in the Reichstag elections on 5 March, only a small percentage voted for Hitler. Yet, once he seized power, his creation of a socially inclusive Volksgemeinschaft, promising equality, economic prosperity and the restoration of honor and prid...

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Hauptverfasser:Wildt, Michael (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:Heise, Bernard (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Deutsch
Veröffentlicht:New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2012
Ausgabe:1st ed
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Antisemitism > Germany > History > 20th century
Jews > Persecutions > Germany > History > 20th century
National socialism
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Causes
Nationalsozialismus
NS
Weimarer Republik
Geschichte, 1920-1929
Geschichte, 1930-1939
Volksgemeinschaft
Ausgrenzung
Antisemitismus
Rassismus
Alltagsgeschichte
Terror
Überwachung
Gewalt
Juden
Judenverfolgung
Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945
Germany > Ethnic relations
Germany > History, Local
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Zusammenfassung:In the spring of 1933, German society was deeply divided - in the Reichstag elections on 5 March, only a small percentage voted for Hitler. Yet, once he seized power, his creation of a socially inclusive Volksgemeinschaft, promising equality, economic prosperity and the restoration of honor and pride after the humiliating ending of World War I persuaded many Germans to support him and to shut their eyes to dictatorial coercion, concentration camps, secret state police, and the exclusion of large sections of the population. The author argues however, that the everyday practice of exclusion changed German society itself: bureaucratic discrimination and violent anti-Jewish actions destroyed the civil and constitutional order and transformed the German nation into an aggressive and racist society. Based on rich source material, this book offers one of the most comprehensive accounts of this transformation as it traces continuities and discontinuities and the replacement of a legal order with a violent one, the extent of which may not have been intended by those involved.
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 283-304
Beschreibung:ix, 311 Seiten
ISBN:9780857453228

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