{"product_id":"hitlers-volksgemeinschaftand-the-dynamics-of-racial-exclusion-violence-against-jews-in-provincial-germany-19191939-9780857453228","title":"Hitlers Volksgemeinschaftand the Dynamics of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the spring of 1933, German society was deeply divided  -  in the Reichstag elections on 5 March, only a small percentage voted for Hitler. Yet, once he seized power, his creation of a socially inclusive Volksgemeinschaft, promising equality, economic prosperity and the restoration of honor and pride after the humiliating ending of World War I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eWildt offers a deep impression of what it actually meant for Jews to live in a society defined as a \u003c\/em\u003eVolksgemeinschaft \u003cem\u003eat least by its leaders…[His] book offers readable and detailed insight into what it meant to produce \u003c\/em\u003eVolksgemeinschaft\u003cem\u003e. It is by now a standard work on the early years of National Socialist anti-Semitism and supplies an inspiring view on the transformation of German society between the years 1919 and 1939.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eH-Net\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eHitler's Volksgemeinschaft\u003cem\u003e convincingly blends larger conceptual claims with detailed historical analysis of specific localities. One cannot walk away from the book still thinking that the German population in Hitler's Germany was oblivious to, or unwilling to endorse, years of violently exclusionary mechanisms set in motion against Jews - the prelude to their eventual extermination.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHolocaust and Genocide Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003e[Wildt’s] \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003einterpretation contests some of the established assessments. Even though the role of the ‘Volksgemeinschaf’ in this process is debatable, the concept inspired a study worth reading…[It]is definitely a thought-provoking book.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJournal of Contemporary European Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e\"This is a nuanced, provocative, and important book.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  American Historical Reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eFor a relatively compact work of under three hundred pages of main text, the thick, compelling narratives and insightful historiographic remarks make this an unusually engaging book, one that is certain to enlighten seasoned scholars as well as those embarking on a serious study of the Third Reich.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Journal of Modern History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eMichael Wildt is one of the most innovative historians of contemporary history working in Germany today… His scholarship is marked by imaginative questions and answers that are arrestingly original, patiently reconstructed, close to the sources, and justly influential…Like much of his previous work, …[his book] impresses not just for reinterpreting a topic…but for recalibrating our lens onto the Third Reich\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYad Vashem Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eMichael Wildt’s account will stimulate academic as well as public debate about the causes and underlying effects of the Nazis’ persecution of the Jews and shed new light on the Nazi regime’s criminal actions against those excluded from the Volksgemeinschaft before 1939. It contradicts the recent tendency to [portray] the Germans as the victims of the Nazi system and reactivates public consciousness of occurrences that have all too often been pushed aside\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHans Mommsen\u003c\/strong\u003e in \u003cem\u003eFrankfurter Rundschau\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eWildt has become in recent years one of the most renowned scholars on Nazi Germany, or, indeed, of contemporary history, thanks in particular to his generational collective biography of a decisive group of perpetrators of the Holocaust, the leadership corps of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt. [….] The value of this book lies in the wide-ranging intellectual links in which the author embeds his empirical material: from the sanctions of honor in the Middle Ages to Carl Schmitt, from an anthropology of violence to the European context of anti-Jewish pogroms\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Nolte\u003c\/strong\u003e in \u003cem\u003edie tageszeitung\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e\"Based on a close reading of newly discovered, disturbing archival sources, Michael Wildt, one of the most prolific historians of the Third Reich, shows that anti-Jewish violence was already omnipresent in Nazi Germany before 1939\u003c\/em\u003e. Hitler’s \u003cem\u003eVolksgemeinschaft\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eand the Dynamics of Racial Exclusion \u003cem\u003edemonstrates that the Nazi \u003c\/em\u003eVolksgemeinschaft \u003cem\u003ewas not just a product of Goebbels' propaganda machinery but brutal reality - a national community based on daily terror. Wildt's book is a must-read for every historian of twentieth-century Germany and the Holocaust.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThomas Kühne\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, \u003c\/strong\u003eauthor of \u003cem\u003eBelonging and Genocide: Hitler's Community, 1918-1945\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eVolksgemeinschaft\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e a Political Concept\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe origins of the \u003cem\u003eVolksgemeinschaft\u003c\/em\u003e during the First World War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\t“All Authority emanates from the Volk”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tWeimar Parties and the \u003cem\u003eVolksgemeinschaft\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\t\u003cem\u003eVolksgemeinschaft\u003c\/em\u003eas Exclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. Anti-Semitic Violence in the Weimar Republic\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFall 1923\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tViolence in the Provinces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCaesura 1930\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAssault on the Constitutional State\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. 1933 - “They won’t do anything to us, after all we’re Germans”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tApril Boycott\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tEmden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDual State\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. The Boycott as a Political Arena\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tTradition of Boycotts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tResentment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tBoycott Actions in Hesse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tSchlüchtern\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tGelnhausen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPolitical Arena\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. The Crowd as an Actor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tGelnhausen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIntensification of Violence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tEast Prussia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCollective Violence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Racial Defilement” – Honor, Gender, and Volk’s Justice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPersecution of “Racial Defilement” after the Seizure of Power\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPillory Processions 1935\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tNorden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMedia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tHonor and Shame\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Nuremburg Laws\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. The Dilemma of the Politics of Violence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe “Individual Actions” continue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tJemgum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tGladenbach\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tWolfhagen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\t“Illusion of the Grace Period”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. Pogrom\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Pogramatic Mood in the early Fall of 1938\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tNovember Pogrom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tWolfhagen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tEmden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tNorden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tTreuchtlingen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPogroms in Europe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tEffects\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion: The Production of the \u003cem\u003eVolksgemeinschaft\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tInclusion and Exclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDivision\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tHonor and Shame\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPopular Justice (Volksrecht)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tSelf-Empowerment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex of Places\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038908711255,"sku":"9780857453228","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857453228.jpg?v=1750941896","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hitlers-volksgemeinschaftand-the-dynamics-of-racial-exclusion-violence-against-jews-in-provincial-germany-19191939-9780857453228","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}