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1 online resource (xx, 336 pages) |
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Volksgemeinschaft: Writing the Social History of the Nazi Regime / Bernhard Gotto -- I. VOLKSGEMEINSCHAFT: CONTROVERSIES -- 2. Volksgemeinschaft: Potential and Limitations of the Concept / Ian Kershaw -- 3. Volksgemeinschaft: A Modern Perspective on National Socialist Society / Michael Wildt -- 4. Echoes of the Volksgemeinschaft / Ulrich Herbert -- II. A NEW FRAME OF REFERENCE: IDEOLOGY, ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICES, AND SOCIAL CONTROL -- 5. Pluralities of National Socialist Ideology: New Perspectives on the Production and Diffusion of National Socialist Weltanschauung / Lutz Raphael -- 6. The Nsdap's Operational Codes after 1933 / Armin Nolzen -- 7. Mobilizing German Society for War: The National Socialist Gaue / Thomas Schaarschmidt |
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IV. VOLKSGEMEINSCHAFT: A RATIONALE FOR VIOLENCE -- 15. The Holocaust: Basis and Objective of the Volksgemeinschaft? / Christopher R. Browning -- 16. Volksgemeinschaft and Violence: Some Reflections on Interdependencies / Sven Keller -- 17. Social Control and the Making of the Volksgemeinschaft / Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann -- V. THE LIMITS OF VOLKSGEMEINSCHAFT POLICIES -- 18. The Military Elite and Volksgemeinschaft / Johannes Hurter -- 19. National Socialist Blueprints for Rural Communities and their Resonance in Agrarian Society / Willi Oberkrome -- 20. The End of the Volksgemeinschaft / Richard Bessel |
| Summary |
When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933 they promised to create a new, harmonious society under the leadership of the Führer, Adolf Hitler. The concept of Volksgemeinschaft, lit. 'the people's community', enshrined the Nazis' vision of society. It was based on racist, social-Darwinist, anti-democratic, and nationalist thought. The regime defined who belonged to the National Socialist 'community' and who did not. Being accorded the status of belonging granted citizenship rights, access to the benefits of the welfare state, and opportunities of advancement. All those denied the privilege to belong lost their right to live. They were shamed, excluded, imprisoned, murdered. Volksgemeinschaft was the Nazis' project of social engineering, to be realized by a plethora of means: state action, administrative procedure, party practice, propaganda, and individual initiative. It unleashed an enormous dynamism, which gave social change a particular direction. However, the Volksgemeinschaft concept was not strictly defined; it was marked by a plurality of meaning and emphasis which resulted in a range of readings in the Third Reich. Often, they stood in continuity to non-Nazi notions of Volksgemeinschaft prevalent in the Weimar Republic, which, however, now had to comply with the racist and social-Darwinist rationale of the National Socialist Volksgemeinschaft concept. In this way, Volksgemeinschaft drew people in. The book scrutinizes Volksgemeinschaft as the Nazis' central vision of community, it engages with individual appropriations, examines projects of social engineering, analyzes the social dynamism unleashed, and shows how deeply private lives were affected by this murderous vision of society. publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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National socialism.
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Social engineering.
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Community life -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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National Socialism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Community life
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National socialism
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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Social engineering
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Social policy
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Germany -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054658
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054640
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Germany -- Social policy -- History -- 20th century
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Steber, Martina, editor.
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Gotto, Bernhard, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191768316 |
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0191768316 |
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9780191003738 |
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0191003735 |
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