Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Gellately, Robert; Stoltzfus, Nathan

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780691188355
• Artikelnr.: 52919850

Autorenporträt

Robert Gellately holds the Strassler Family Chair for the Study of Holocaust History in the Center for Holocaust Studies at Clark University. His books include Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany and The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933-1945. Nathan Stoltzfus, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Florida State University, is the author of Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER 1 Social Outsiders and the Construction of the Community of the
People by Robert Gellately and Nathan Stoltzfus 3
CHAPTER 2 Social Outsiders in German History: From the Sixteenth Century to
1933 by Richard J. Evans 20
CHAPTER 3 No ''Volksgenossen'': Jewish Entrepreneurs in the Third Reich by
Frank Bajohr 45
CHAPTER 4 When the Ordinary Became Extraordinary: German Jews Reacting to
Nazi Persecution, 1933-1939 by Marion A. Kaplan 66
CHAPTER 5 The Nazi Purge of German Artistic and Cultural Life by Alan E.
Steinweis 99
CHAPTER 6 The Limits of Policy: Social Protection of Intermarried German by
Jews in Nazi Germany by Nathan Stoltzfus 117
CHAPTER 7 The Exclusion and Murder of the Disabled by Henry Friedlander 145
CHAPTER 8 From Indefinite Confinement to Extermination:
"Habitual-Criminals" in the Third Reich by Nikolaus Wachsmann 165
CHAPTER 9 The Ambivalent Outsider: Prostitution, Promiscuity, and VD
Control in Nazi Berlin by Annette F. Timor 192
CHAPTER 1O ''Gypsies'' as Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany by Sybil H.
Milton 212
CHAPTER 11 The Institutionalization of Homosexual Panic in the Third Reich
by Geoffrey J. Giles 233
CHAPTER 12 Police Justice, Popular Justice, and Social Outsiders in Nazi
Germany: The Example of Polish Foreign Workers by Robert Gellately 256
CHAPTER 13 Sex, Blood, and Vulnerability: Women Outsiders in German
Occupied Europe by Doris L. Bergen 273
CHAPTER 14 Social Outcasts in War and Genocide: A Comparative Perspective
by Omer Bartov 294
List of Contributors 319
Index 321