Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft and the dynamics of racial exclusion: violence against Jews in provincial Germany, 1919-1939

In the spring of 1933, German society was deeply divided - in the Reichstag elections on 5 March, only a small percentage voted for Hitler. Yet, once he seized power, his creation of a socially inclusive Volksgemeinschaft, promising equality, economic prosperity and the restoration of honor and prid...

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Main Author: Wildt, Michael 1954- (Author)
Contributors: Heise, Bernard (Translator)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Oxford Berghahn Books 2012
In:Year: 2012
Reviews:Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft and the Dynamics of Racial Exclusion: Violence against Jews in Provincial Germany, 1919–1939, Michael Wildt (New York: Berghahn Books in association with Yad Vashem, 2012), x + 311 pp., hardcover 95.00 (2013) (Krondorfer, Björn, 1959 -)
Edition:1st ed.
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B National Socialism / Community of the people / Jewish persecution / Rural area / History 1919-1939
B Germany / Antisemitism
Further subjects:B National Socialism
B NS
B Violence
B Antisemitism (Germany) History 20th century
B Weimar Republic
B Germany Politics and government 1933-1945
B Germany History, Local
B Antisemitism
B Terror
B Surveillance (motif)
B Community of the people
B Germany Ethnic relations
B Jews Persecutions (Germany) History 20th century
B Jews
B Jewish persecution
B Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Causes
B Geschichte, 1930-1939
B Exclusion
B Racism
B Geschichte, 1920-1929
B Alltagsgeschichte
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Summary:In the spring of 1933, German society was deeply divided - in the Reichstag elections on 5 March, only a small percentage voted for Hitler. Yet, once he seized power, his creation of a socially inclusive Volksgemeinschaft, promising equality, economic prosperity and the restoration of honor and pride after the humiliating ending of World War I persuaded many Germans to support him and to shut their eyes to dictatorial coercion, concentration camps, secret state police, and the exclusion of large sections of the population. The author argues however, that the everyday practice of exclusion changed German society itself: bureaucratic discrimination and violent anti-Jewish actions destroyed the civil and constitutional order and transformed the German nation into an aggressive and racist society. Based on rich source material, this book offers one of the most comprehensive accounts of this transformation as it traces continuities and discontinuities and the replacement of a legal order with a violent one, the extent of which may not have been intended by those involved.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 283-304
ISBN:085745322X