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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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Uncanny Reminders: The 'Nazi' in Popular Culture
The ubiquity of the ‘Nazi’ – the fictional Doppelgänger of the historical Nazi – in the various media of popular culture is both disturbing and fascinating. There is an important relationship between the ‘Nazi’ and its audience; related to but separate from the historical Nazi, the creation and …
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Opposition Poetry in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
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Understanding the Holocaust: Ernest Becker and the "Heroic Nazi"
… and in particular the widespread consent to the Nazi program. One of the primary limitations that emerges is an inability of historians to fully engage other social sciences to offer a more comprehensive explanation as to why so many Germans engaged in what we would consider an “evil†…
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The effectiveness of Nazi propaganda during World War II
<p>This thesis examines Nazi propaganda’s overall effectiveness during Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s through the end of World War II in 1945. Historians have had mixed opinions of the overall potency of the propaganda. The questions in consideration are why Nazi propaganda received so …
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Nazi "chic"? : Fashioning women in the Third Reich
… site of contentious debate. Clothing, which the Nazis hoped would serve as a visible sign of inclusion into – or exclusion from – the Volksgemeinschaft, the national community, instead became a divisive wedge between the government and the majority of German women. This dissertation explores …
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Nazi Ideology and the Pursuit of War Aim: 1941-45
… considered a military blunder on the part of the Nazi Germans. On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched a massive invasion into the Soviet Union and Soviet territories. The political goals of Operation Barbarossa were to seize hold of the expanses of land belonging to the Soviet Union. This would …
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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 British Labour Party's foreign policy and Nazi Germany, 1929-1938
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of History, 1966
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Terror in the Ostland: The Genesis of Nazi Collaboration, 1941-42
… native collaboration in the Baltic States with Nazi Germany, specifically the SS Einsatzgruppen, during the outbreak of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe from 1941-42. It attempts to argue that ordinary citizens in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia were active and enthusiastic volunteers during the …
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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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Broken supermen: Disabled veterans and soldiers in Nazi Germany, 1939-1945
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Negotiating Jewish victimhood at Majdanek: reluctant communists, political flux, and Nazi guilt
… how questions of Jewish victimhood at the Nazi concentration and death camp Majdanek were negotiated by Poles and Soviets during the immediate post-liberation period in Lublin from July to October, 1944. After liberating eastern Poland, the Soviets established the Polish Committee for …
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