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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Nazis"”.
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REEL NAZIS a propaganda history
This thesis film is an overview of Nazi Germany, primarily told through the use of their own propaganda images, and structured in such a way as to make the viewer question what they think they know about the past, present, and future. This paper is a discussion of the process that went into making …
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Nazis into Germans : re-education and democratisation in the British and French occupation zones, 1945-1949
… an inversion of Peter Fritzsche's Germans into Nazis, his book on the nazification of Germany. Methodologically, this dissertation is an exercise in comparative history. Significantly, in spite of the rather large body of secondary material on the topic, no detailed comparison exists to date. …
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Nazi Ideology and the Pursuit of War Aim: 1941-45
… supposed greater good Germany. Additionally, the Nazis desired to erase the presence of all Jews living within the Soviet Union and Soviet held territories. Eventually, this goal would be aimed at eliminating Jews across all of Europe and would be dubbed the Final Solution. Furthermore, the Nazis …
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The Catastrophic Position of the Judenräte: Self-Serving Collaborators or Honorable Martyrs?
<p>During the Holocaust, the Nazis appointed a select group of Jewish leaders to carry out their demands and orders throughout the ghettos of Eastern Europe. These influential men made up the Judenrate. From the beginning of the ghettos until their tragic demise, these Jewish leaders were …
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Strings of Hope: The Meanings of the Violin in Jewish and Holocaust History
… culture prior to Nazi domination? How did the Nazis use instrumental music to manage of the camps and control the lives of prisoners? How did the music prove to be a means of defiance against Nazi power? In an era when Nazis stripped Jews of their belongings, what did simply possessing a …
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Minority Christian groups in the third reich: their strategies for survival: a comparative study
… little written on the relationship between the Nazis and the Christian sects. This work takes five of the largest and most representative sects in Gennany and examines what happened to them during the Third Reich. Two introductory chapters set the scene. Chapter One examines the complex and …
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Johanna Ey: a critical reappraisal
… until she was evicted from her gallery by the Nazis in 1934. This study opens with a factual overview of Ey’s biography. Chapters are then devoted to an analysis of the development, reception and prevalence of aspects of her legend: the use of the ‘Mutter Ey’ image in the Weimar Period; an …
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National Socialism in Contested German Borderlands, 1922-1933
… trajectories. The second chapter shows how Nazis colonized the commemoration of post-war military and plebiscitary border struggles so as to associate their movement with those events' prestige. Chapter three analyzes other borderland-specific forms of propaganda. The fourth chapter looks …
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Plastic / Explosive: Claude Cahun and the Politics of Becoming Otherwise
… “the Nameless Soldiers." They fought the Nazis with what they called Surrealist "weapons of chance," mounting a devastating campaign against the German soldiers that sought to confuse and demoralize them, fomenting revolt in the Nazi camp. While contemporary Anglophone scholarship is …
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Articulated Absences and Silenced Souvenirs: exploring Switzerland’s complicity in the trading of Nazi gold through a counter-archive
… and thus playing an indispensable role for the Nazis. However, this financial complicity was concealed after the war. Instead, the Swiss government constructed an official narrative celebrating the sacrificial efforts of the Swiss Army as the reason the Nazis did not invade Switzerland. …
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Rückerstattung Ost : der Umgang der DDR mit dem 'arisierten' und enteigneten jüdischen Eigentum und die Gestaltung der Rückerstattung im wiedervereinigten Deutschland
… wie sich die DDR mit dem Problem des von den Nazis 'arisierten' und enteigneten jüdischen Eigentum auseinandersetzte und warum sich die SED der Rückgabe an die ursprünglichen Eigentümer oder deren Erben verweigerte. Dies wird plastisch anhand von Einzelfällen und Sonderentwicklungen, wie z.B. …
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The Zumbrota
… uncovers a conspiracy between mobsters and Nazis to undermine America’s recovering economy. The Zumbrota is my love letter to the detective genre, a grand tradition that goes back almost two centuries.
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The Rhetorical Dimensions of Radio Propaganda in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
… Such was the case between 1933 and 1945 when the Nazis unleashed their manipulative mass media campaign that helped facilitate totalitarian control over the German people. This dissertation is the study of its radio component. Special emphasis is placed on the origins, construction, and subsequent …
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Ego-Feeling and Ego-Boundaries: An Examination of the Work and Legacy of Paul Federn
… a member when the society was disbanded by the Nazis in 1938. He was also an early pioneer in the use of psychoanalysis toward the understanding and treatment of psychosis, and was among the very first to consider the importance of the ego to psychoanalytic understanding of the mind and mental …
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Victims of Hope: Explaining Jewish Behavior in the Treblinka, Sobibór and Birkenau Extermination Camps
… and psychological conditioning, which the Nazis employed during World War II to preclude Jewish resistance to the Final Solution. In Chapter I, I present resistance historiography as it has developed since the end of the war. In Chapter II, I delineate my own argument on Jewish behavior …
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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
… 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 the Beer Hall Putsch. The second chapter focuses on the Nazi Party’s …
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An unblinking gaze: on the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade
… that Sade’s thought anticipates that of the Nazis, or that he brings early Modern thought to its logical conclusion. Secondly, I will inquire into Sade’s writings themselves. Of particular interest are Sade’s thoughts concerning the nature of sexuality, psychology, and the human condition in …
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Cleansing Czechland : the Prague Uprising and the end of a multiethnic Bohemia
… that a deep-seated prejudice existed before the Nazis invaded, yet it was the Nazi behavior, their fanatical condescension, that changed disgruntlement into revenge
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The Nazi "Church": Nazism as Ersatzreligion
… 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 replaced traditional German Christianity at a time when a nation, ripe for …
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