Believers Writing for Believers: Traces of Political Religion in National Socialist Pulp Fiction

The following article analyses numerous brochures, short biographies and books for young people published on the National Socialist martyr figure Horst Wessel in 1933-4 in so far as their politically religious contents are concerned. The analysis shows how the Wessel biographers, mostly simple party...

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Main Author: Luckey, Heiko (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2007
In: Totalitarian movements and political religions
Year: 2007, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 77-92
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)

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