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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| Main Authors: | Wildt, Michael (Author) |
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| Outros Autores: | Heise, Bernard (Translator) |
| Formato: | Livro |
| Idioma: | English German |
| Publicado em: | New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2012 |
| Edição: | 1st ed |
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| Acesso em linha: | Cover Book review (H-Net) Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Resumo: | 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. |
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| Descrição do item: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 283-304 |
| Descrição Física: | ix, 311 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780857453228 |
