Adolf Hitler
Allied-occupied Germany
Anschluss
Anti-communism
Antisemitism
Antisemitism (authors)
Antiziganism
Arbeitseinsatz
Aryanization (Nazism)
Auschwitz concentration camp
Blacklisting
Brothel
Buchenwald concentration camp
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Comparison of Nazism and Stalinism
Crime
Deportation
Dictatorship
Einsatzgruppen
Emigration
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Eugenics
Euthanasia
Exclusion
German Christians
German war crimes
Germanisation
Germans
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Hitler Youth
Homosexuality
Imprisonment
Internment
Jews
Life unworthy of life
Mass murder
Mischling
Nazi concentration camps
Nazi Germany
Nazi Party
Nazi Party Chancellery
Nazi plunder
Nazi propaganda
Nazi seizure of power
Nazism
Nuremberg Laws
Persecution
Persecution of Jews
Political repression
Prison
Prisoner of war
Prostitution
Racism
Radicalization
Reich Flight Tax
Reich Main Security Office
Reichstag fire
Reichstag Fire Decree
Rhineland Bastard
Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Scientific racism
Sexism
Sinti
Social death
Social exclusion
Theresienstadt concentration camp
Totalitarianism
Unemployment
Weimar Republic
Women in Nazi Germany
Zionism
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- ISBN 9780691086842
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 27 May 2001
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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When Hitler assumed power in 1933, he and other Nazis had firm ideas on what they called a racially pure "community of the people." They quickly took steps against those whom they wanted to isolate, deport, or destroy. In these essays informed by the latest research, leading scholars offer rich histories of the people branded as "social outsiders" in Nazi Germany: Communists, Jews, "Gypsies," foreign workers, prostitutes, criminals, homosexuals, and the homeless, unemployed, and chronically ill. Although many works have concentrated exclusively on the relationship between Jews and the Third Reich, this collection also includes often-overlooked victims of Nazism while reintegrating the Holocaust into its wider social context. The Nazis knew what attitudes and values they shared with many other Germans, and most of their targets were individuals and groups long regarded as outsiders, nuisances, or "problem cases." The identification, the treatment, and even the pace of their persecution of political opponents and social outsiders illustrated that the Nazis attuned their law-and-order policies to German society, history, and traditions.
Hitler's personal convictions, Nazi ideology, and what he deemed to be the wishes and hopes of many people, came together in deciding where it would be politically most advantageous to begin. The first essay explores the political strategies used by the Third Reich to gain support for its ideologies and programs, and each following essay concentrates on one group of outsiders. Together the contributions debate the motivations behind the purges. For example, was the persecution of Jews the direct result of intense, widespread anti-Semitism, or was it part of a more encompassing and arbitrary persecution of "unwanted populations" that intensified with the war? The collection overall offers a nuanced portrayal of German citizens, showing that many supported the Third Reich while some tried to resist, and that the war radicalized social thinking on nearly everyone's part. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Frank Bajohr, Omer Bartov, Doris L. Bergen, Richard J. Evans, Henry Friedlander, Geoffrey J. Giles, Marion A. Kaplan, Sybil H. Milton, Alan E. Steinweis, Annette F. Timm, and Nikolaus Wachsmann.
Robert Gellately holds the Strassler Family Chair for the Study of Holocaust History in the Center for Holocaust Studies at Clark University. His books include Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany and The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933-1945. Nathan Stoltzfus, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Florida State University, is the author of Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany.
