Robert Gellately

Hitler's True Believers (eBook, PDF)

How Ordinary People Became Nazis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Understanding Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the mental world of an extremist politics that, over the course of the Third Reich, developed explosive energies culminating in the Second World War and the Holocaust. Too often the theories underlying National Socialism or Nazism are dismissed as an irrational hodge-podge of ideas. Yet that ideology drove Hitler's quest for power in 1933, colored everything in the Third Reich, and transformed him, however briefly, into the most powerful leader in the world. How did he discover that ideology? How was it that cohorts of leaders, followers, and ordinary citizens adopted aspects of National Socialism without experiencing the "leader" first-hand or reading his works? They shared a collective desire to create a harmonious, racially select, "community of the people" to build on Germany's socialist-oriented political culture and to seek national renewal. If we wish to understand the rise of the Nazi Party and the new dictatorship's remarkable staying power, we have to take the nationalist and socialist aspects of this ideology seriously. Hitler became a kind of representative figure for ideas, emotions, and aims that he shared with thousands, and eventually millions, of true believers who were of like mind . They projected onto him the properties of the "necessary leader," a commanding figure at the head of a uniformed corps that would rally the masses and storm the barricades. It remains remarkable that millions of people in a well-educated and cultured nation eventually came to accept or accommodate themselves to the tenants of an extremist ideology laced with hatred and laden with such obvious murderous implications.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190689919
• Artikelnr.: 59352363

Autorenporträt

Robert Gellately is Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at Florida State University. He is the author of Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War, Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany, The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, The Politics of Economic Despair: Shopkeepers and German Politics, and Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: How Hitler Found National Socialist Ideas
Chapter 2: Early Leaders' Paths to National Socialism
Chapter 3: The National Socialist "Left"
Chapter 4: The Militants
Chapter 5: The Nazi Voters
Chapter 6: National Socialism Gains Power
Chapter 7: Embracing the Volksgemeinschaft
Chapter 8: Striving for Unanimity
Chapter 9: Quest for a Cultural Revolution
Chapter 10: The Racist Ideology
Chapter 11: Nationalism and Militarism
Chapter 12: War and Genocide
Conclusion