National Socialism and German Discourse

National Socialism and German Discourse

Author: W J Dodd

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-04-12

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 331974660X

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In this discourse history, W J Dodd analyses the ‘unquiet voices’ of opponents whose contemporary critiques of Nazism, from positions of territorial and inner exile, focused on the ‘language of Nazism’. Individual chapters review ‘precursor’ discourses; Nazi public discourse from 1933 to 1945; the testimonies of ‘unquiet voices’ abroad, and in private and published texts in the ‘Reich’; attempts to ‘denazify the language’ (1945-49), and the legacies of the Nazi past in a retrospective discourse of ‘coming to terms’ with the Nazi past. In the period from 1945, the book focuses on contestations of ‘tainted language’ and instrumentalizations of the Nazi past, and the persistence of linguistic taboos in contemporary German usage. Highly engaging, with English translations provided throughout, this book will provide an invaluable resource for scholars of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and German history and culture; as well as readers with a general interest in language and politics.


Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature

Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature

Author: Katherine Stone

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 157113994X

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In recent years, historians have revealed the many ways in which German women supported National Socialism-as teachers, frontline auxiliaries, and nurses, as well as in political organizations. In mainstream culture, however, the women of the period are still predominantly depicted as the victims of a violent twentieth century whose atrocities were committed by men. They are frequently imagined as post hoc redeemers of the nation, as the "rubble women" who spiritually and literally rebuilt Germany. This book investigates why the question of women's complicity in the Third Reich has struggled to capture the historical imagination in the same way. It explores how female authors from across the political and generational spectrum (Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Wolf, Elisabeth Plessen, Gisela Elsner, Tanja D ckers, Jenny Erpenbeck) conceptualize the role of women in the Third Reich. As well as offering innovative re-readings of celebrated works, this book provides instructive interpretations of lesser-known texts that nonetheless enrich our understanding of German memory culture. Katherine Stone is Assistant Professor in German Studies at the University of Warwick.


Heidegger and the Question of National Socialism

Heidegger and the Question of National Socialism

Author: Bernhard Radloff

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 0802093159

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The question of being was integral to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) and was a large factor in the development of his political and aesthetic thought. In Heidegger and the Question of National Socialism, Bernhard Radloff investigates the philosophical foundations and cultural context of Heidegger's conception of being, focusing on the idea of gestalt as the guiding thread that determined German conservative thought throughout the 1930s. In doing so, Heidegger's philosophy is related to the whole of German society at the time, a society in which gestalt was the guiding light and the ultimate aspiration of artists, technicians, and politicians. Throughout the book, Heidegger's own understanding of gestalt is used as a window to his thoughts on being, which is conceived of as incorporated, finite, and historically situated in beings. Concentrating on the years between 1933 and 1942, Radloff seeks to capture the response of Heidegger's philosophy to National Socialism, examining key works and relating them to the literature of the German conservative revolution. Heidegger and the Question of National Socialism is, therefore a thorough treatment of his political philosophy as it relates to the question of being. Adopting both a historical and phenomenological approach to the subject, this book is equally an examination of German conservative ideology, a critique of technological determinism, and a study of one of the most controversial philosophers of twentieth century.


Nazi Germany and Southern Europe, 1933-45

Nazi Germany and Southern Europe, 1933-45

Author: Fernando Clara

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1137551526

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Nazi Germany and Southern Europe, 1933-45 is about transnational fascist discourse. It addresses the cultural and scientific links between Nazi Germany and Southern Europe focusing on a hybrid international environment and an intricate set of objects that include individual, social, cultural or scientific networks and events.


Heidegger and Nazism

Heidegger and Nazism

Author: Víctor Farías

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780877228301

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The first book to document Heidegger's close connections to Nazism-now available to a new generation of students


Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany

Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany

Author: Elizabeth Harvey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-07-18

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1108484980

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Highlights the surprising ways in which the Nazi regime permitted or even fostered aspirations of privacy.


The Kaiser Wilhelm Society Under National Socialism

The Kaiser Wilhelm Society Under National Socialism

Author: Susanne Heim

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-04-27

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 052187906X

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This book examines the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes under Hitler, illustrating the cooperation between scientists and National Socialists in service of autarky, racial hygiene, war, and genocide.


Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

Author: Jane Caplan

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0198706952

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Nazi Germany may have only lasted for 12 years, but it has left a legacy that still echoes with us today. This work discusses the emergence and appeal of the Nazi party, the relationship between consent and terror in securing the regime, the role played by Hitler himself, and the dark stains of war, persecution, and genocide left by Nazi Germany.