Nazi Conscience

Informationen zum Autor Claudia Koonz is Professor of History at Duke University. Klappentext Challenging the conventional assumptions about Hitler, Koonz locates the source of his charisma not in his summons to hate, but in his appeal to the collective virtue of his people, the "Volk." 62 halftones. Zusammenfassung Koonz’s latest work reveals how racial popularizers developed the infrastructure and rationale for genocide during the so-called normal years before World War II. Challenging conventional assumptions about Hitler, Koonz locates the source of his charisma not in his summons to hate, but in his appeal to the collective virtue of his people, the Volk. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue 1. An Ethnic Conscience 2. The Politics of Virtue 3. Allies in the Academy 4. The Conquest of Political Culture 5. Ethnic Revival and Racist Anxiety 6. The Swastika in the Heart of the Youth 7. Law and the Racial Order 8. The Quest for a Respectable Racism 9. Racial Warriors 10. Racial War at Home Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Illustration Credits Index

Product details

• Authors: Claudia Koonz, Koonz Claudia
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2005
• EAN: 9780674018426
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01842-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Holocaust, European History, Germany, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater