Working Towards the Volksgemeinschaft: Constructing a Racial Community at the Junkers Aircraft Factory

The leitmotif of the Third Reich was the insistence on the construction of a racial Volksgemeinschaft, with Nazi agencies constantly searching for manifestations of this political and social order. In the Nazi world view, every German had a claim to the Volksgemeinschaft, regardless of social backgr...

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Main Author: Kjøstvedt, Anders G. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2016
In: Politics, religion & ideology
Year: 2016, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-51
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