Life and Death in the Third Reich

Informationen zum Autor Peter Fritzsche is Professor of History at the University of Illinois! Urbana-Champaign.. Klappentext Intends to decipher the puzzle of Nazism's ideological grip. This title examines the efforts of Germans to adjust to new racial identities! to believe in the necessity of war! to accept the dynamic of unconditional destruction - in short! to become Nazis. It presents a portrait of how ideology takes hold. Zusammenfassung Using diaries and letters as evidence, Fritzsche argues that the essence of Nazism’s ideological grip lay in the Volksgemeinschaft—a “people’s community” that appealed to Germans to be part of a great project to redress the wrongs of the Versailles treaty, revitalize the country, and cleanse the body politic. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Preface * Introduction *1. Reviving the Nation *"Heil Hitler!" * How Far Did Germans Support the Nazis? *Volksgemeinschaft! or the People's Community * Consuming the Nation *Unter Uns! or Nazism's Audiovisual Space *2. Racial Grooming * Aryan Passports * Biology and the National Revolution * Seeing like an Aryan * The Camp * Unworthy Life * The Assault on German Jews *3. Empire of Destruction * Writing Letters * The Imperial Project * The Expansion of the German Empire * Final Solutions to the "Jewish Problem" * The Deportation of German Jews * The Holocaust *4. Intimate Knowledge * Train Station * Jewish Witnesses * German Witnesses * Perpetrators and Victims * Imagining the End of the War * Reading Catastrophe * Notes * Index

Product details

• Authors: Peter Fritzsche, Fritzsche Peter
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2009
• EAN: 9780674034655
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03465-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Propaganda, Deportation, History, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Discrimination, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Social History, National Socialism, Concentration Camp, Second World War, Genocide, Social and cultural history, Antisemitism, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, eugenics, racial grooming, nazification, aryan passport, final solution, bearing witness, ethnic cleansing, germans under nazis, jewish question, events leading up to holocaust