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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Nazi Party"”.
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Amerika- Deutscher Vilksbund: 1924- 1941.
… Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP, the Nazi party of Germany.
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National Powers of Belief: Folklore, Mythology and Festival in Nazi Germany
… 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 discipline of folklore based on the theories of Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) and Wilhelm …
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The trajectory of male homosexuality in Nazism
<p>Nazism redefined gender and sexual politics for society during the twentieth century, which determined the trajectory of male homosexuality under the Third Reich. While the party did not actively promote homosexuality, early Nazism valued hypermasculinity and homosocial relationships. Right-wing …
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A Close Encounter with Death: Narration in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief
… particularly the “Hitler myth” advanced by the Nazi Party. To teach readers this lesson on the constructedness of all totalizing narratives, Death recruits the reader’s trust through his humanlike engaging narration, which builds the credibility of his performance of omniscience.</p>
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A study of various Nationalist appropriations of Nietzsche in the Weimar Republic
… are the author Ernst Jünger, and from within the Nazi Party, the Nietzsche scholar, Alfred Baeumler and the ideologue Alfred Rosenberg. There has been significant research into these separate fields of study but the aim here is to consider them alongside one another in order to defend both …
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Weeding the garden: Euthanasia, National Socialism, and Germany, 1939-1945
… 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 starvation to kill thousands of insane, …
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The Concept of Overcoming the Political: An Intellectual Biography of SS-Standartenfuehrer and Professor Dr. Reinhard Hoehn, 1904-1944
… of Reinhard Hoehn during the Weimar and Nazi Eras. In particular, Hoehn's political writings, which are closely analyzed, indicate a continuing commitment to the ideals of the Conservative Revolution through his changes in political affiliations. It serves as a case study of the much …
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Adolf Eichmann: a Reappraisal
… and Milgram believed the totalitarian system of Nazi Germany was responsible for the moral corruption of its citizens whose only fault was their willingness to obey superior authority. This reappraisal is not based upon new material. Rather, it is founded upon evidence which has been either …
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Intimate Encounters and the Politics of German Occupation in Belgium, 1940-44/45
… repeated efforts of the German High Command and Nazi party to incite German men in uniform to avoid contact with locals, and particularly women. Using a wide array of sources from archives in Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain and the United States, including government and military …
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Background music : National Socialist propaganda and the reinforcement of German virtue
… of propaganda used by the National Socialist party, film and advertising in a middle-class German periodical, I compare subtle and overt propaganda methods, as well as the differing approaches the Reich Ministry for Propaganda took when targeting varying audiences. My first chapter is an in …
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Is Hamlet untranslatable? : renegotiating the boundaries of translatability in twentieth century German Hamlets
… intervention from political regimes like the Nazi Party and the Socialist State in East Germany, to small-scale domestic quarrels with a spouse. My thesis combines textual analysis and detailed discussions with translators, in order to develop a fuller understanding of the pragmatics of …
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A Problem of Perception An Analysis of the Formation, Reception, and Implementation of National Socialist Ideology in Germany, 1919 to 1939
<p>This thesis seeks to dispel the notion that Nazi ideology was merely an afterthought to numerous actions taken by the Nazis. The first chapter discusses how Nazism’s earliest adherents internalized notions from World War I into an ideology that would motivate the early Nazi Movement to launch …