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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"National Socialism"”.
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Austrian National Socialism and the Anschluss
… 1938 suddenly tipped the scales in favor of the National Socialists and, in less than three months time, executed a plan for union which had eluded pan-Germanic demands for decades.</p>
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Political Sound: National Socialism and Its Musical Afterlive
… of music (and sonic expression more broadly) in National Socialist Germany and the shadow cast by it over subsequent music history. I argue that sonic expression in the Third Reich held much greater political significance than has elsewhere been recognized, featuring as a prominent component of …
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National Socialism in Contested German Borderlands, 1922-1933
… location and in the fluidity of ethnic and national dividing lines, of the country's borderlands. It opens with a discussion of how reportedly formative experiences of the borders' vulnerability before, during, and just after the First World War influenced later Nazi activists' political …
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Weeding the garden: Euthanasia, National Socialism, and Germany, 1939-1945
"""Weeding the Garden"" draws from contemporary German and non-German observations, Nazi party and German state documents, and additional secondary sources to survey the development, execution, and conclusion of the ""euthanasia"" program which used bullets, carbon monoxide, injections, and …
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Political Civil Servants and the Practice of Administration under National Socialism
… both the practice of administration under National Socialism and the biographies of its practitioners. Focusing exclusively on those who led government ministries – the Staatssekretäre – it will argue that whilst the bulk of the Third Reich’s administrators identified with its agenda on …
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A guide to national socialism : the Third Reich and Richard Wagner
… remains the possibility of a return to some National-Socialist doctrine of salvation. 1 German intellectuals would not have opened their arms quite so readily to Hitler if they had not been prepared for it by Wagner, Bayreuth and the Wagnerians. 2 Wagner was He cared for monster who should …
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The National and International Church: National Socialism, German Protestantism, and the Watching World
The German Protestant Church Struggle was an international story. German Protestants were leading participants in international Protestantism, and the global ecumenical community took keen interest in German church affairs under National Socialism. International concerns affected German state …
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From Victim Hierarchies to Memorial Networks: Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial to Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
… So began a new phase of contestation – a national memorial project at its centre – over the so-called uniqueness of the (Jewish) Holocaust, and the moral and political responsibility of the newly reunified German state for genocide committed against Jewish and “other” victim groups. This …
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The German peasant family, 1925-1939 : the problems of the republic and the impact of national socialism
Rural society during the German National Socialist movement has been overlooked by most historians. Instead the urban elements are stressed. I have chosen to study the impact of National Socialism upon peasant families.Three major limitations exist for this project. First, only the peasant family …
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German Masculine Fashion Culture during National Socialism and the Postwar Era: Constructing and Reconstructing the Ideal Man through Illustration
Under the National-Socialist regime, German visual culture prescribed rigid gender roles of militaristic masculinity to parallel the nation’s rearmament and complement its ideals of domesticated femininity. After twelve years of witnessing and, for most, participating in the political, personal, …
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Heidegger, Holderlin, Hitler: Evaluating the Proximity of Heidegger's Philosophy to National Socialism Through the Significance of Poetry for His Concept of Truth, 1927-1937
… the proximity of Heidegger’s philosophy to National Socialism by exploring the significance of his thesis on the work of art in the developments of his concept of truth throughout the 1930s. During this time, two major developments emerged in Heidegger’s concept of truth. First, he …
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A Match Made in Heaven or Hell: Historians Debate the Influence of Richard Wagner on Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.
… to the development of Adolf Hitler and National Socialism.</p> <p>This author has concluded that Wagner was a contributor, but that Hitler's personal environment was more important to the development of National Socialism.</p> <p>This thesis explores an area into which no one has really …
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The Nazi "Church": Nazism as Ersatzreligion
… theories depict a vast range of extremes from National Socialism portrayed as a secular or political religion to painting the Nazis as anti-Christian pagans. The "Nazi Church" was neither a political religion nor was it simply paganism; instead, National Socialism became its own religion which …
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Between defiance and compliance: the Lutheran Landesbischöfe of Hanover, Bavaria and Württemberg in the Third Reich
… ultimately forced to find ways to respond to National Socialism that lay somewhere between the parameters of defiance and compliance. In order to demonstrate the collective contribution of the Landesbischöfe to maintaining the status of the German Protestant Church amidst heightening Nazi …
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Italienischer Faschismus und deutscher Nationalsozialismus im italienischen Genrefilm
… special attention to the representation of national socialism, the popularity of these Italian genres in Germany is discussed in terms of offering also a German audience a highly alienated but challenging confrontation with the national socialist past. Making genre theory productive for …
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National Powers of Belief: Folklore, Mythology and Festival in Nazi Germany
… I examine the relationship between folklore and nationalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany. More specifically, I focus on how the Nazis used folklore and the work of folklorists in their propaganda. The first chapter documents the development of nationalism and the creation of the …
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Indian Political Thought and Germany's Fascism, ca. 1918-1950
… the three totalitarianisms for countering internationalism, socialism, and pacifism that eradicated the very foundation of national sovereignty in antagonism or ‘dualism’. He developed a potentially limitless notion of ‘the popular’ or ‘the people’, which exceeded liberal democracy and centred …
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The distorted image: German Jewish perceptions of Germans and Germany, 1918-1935
… for these responses to the rise and triumph of National Socialism: to emigrate was to lose one's personal possessions–money, home, business (Poliakov 3, 10). By imposing taxes and fees, Nazi legislation made emigration difficult if not impossible for many Jews (Hilberg 55-60).</p> <p>Economic …
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