Nazism

Nazism

Author: Jeremy Noakes

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9780805209723

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Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes

Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes

Author: Paul Corner

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-10

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0199566526

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A team of internationally acknowledged experts examines the question of popular opinion in totalitarian regimes, looking at the ways in which ordinary people experienced everyday life in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy, with consideration also of Poland and East Germany between 1945 and 1989.


Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany

Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany

Author: Robert Gellately

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0691188351

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When Hitler assumed power in 1933, he and other Nazis had firm ideas on what they called a racially pure "community of the people." They quickly took steps against those whom they wanted to isolate, deport, or destroy. In these essays informed by the latest research, leading scholars offer rich histories of the people branded as "social outsiders" in Nazi Germany: Communists, Jews, "Gypsies," foreign workers, prostitutes, criminals, homosexuals, and the homeless, unemployed, and chronically ill. Although many works have concentrated exclusively on the relationship between Jews and the Third Reich, this collection also includes often-overlooked victims of Nazism while reintegrating the Holocaust into its wider social context. The Nazis knew what attitudes and values they shared with many other Germans, and most of their targets were individuals and groups long regarded as outsiders, nuisances, or "problem cases." The identification, the treatment, and even the pace of their persecution of political opponents and social outsiders illustrated that the Nazis attuned their law-and-order policies to German society, history, and traditions. Hitler's personal convictions, Nazi ideology, and what he deemed to be the wishes and hopes of many people, came together in deciding where it would be politically most advantageous to begin. The first essay explores the political strategies used by the Third Reich to gain support for its ideologies and programs, and each following essay concentrates on one group of outsiders. Together the contributions debate the motivations behind the purges. For example, was the persecution of Jews the direct result of intense, widespread anti-Semitism, or was it part of a more encompassing and arbitrary persecution of "unwanted populations" that intensified with the war? The collection overall offers a nuanced portrayal of German citizens, showing that many supported the Third Reich while some tried to resist, and that the war radicalized social thinking on nearly everyone's part. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Frank Bajohr, Omer Bartov, Doris L. Bergen, Richard J. Evans, Henry Friedlander, Geoffrey J. Giles, Marion A. Kaplan, Sybil H. Milton, Alan E. Steinweis, Annette F. Timm, and Nikolaus Wachsmann.


The Soviet Union

The Soviet Union

Author: Edward Acton

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13:

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Combining narrative commentary with over 270 contemporary documents, this title provides an entree to debate over humanity's most momentous and tragic experiment. It is suitable for students at all levels.


Before the Deluge

Before the Deluge

Author: Otto Friedrich

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1995-10-13

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 0060926791

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A fascinating portrait of the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s.