German Wartime Society 1939 1945 Exploitation Interpretations Exclusion Germany and the Second World War IX II 1st Edition by Jörg Echternkamp ISBN 978-0199542963 0199542961

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ISBN 10: 0199542961

ISBN 13: 978-0199542963

Author:  Jörg Echternkamp
The Second World War affected the lives and shaped the experience of millions of individuals in Germany – soldiers at the front, women, children, and the elderly sheltering in cellars, slave labourers toiling in factories, and concentration-camp prisoners and POWs clearing rubble in the Reich’s devastated cities.
Taking a ‘history from below’ approach, the volume examines how the minds and behaviour of individuals were moulded by the Party as the Reich took the road to Total War. The ever-increasing numbers of German workers conscripted into the Wehrmacht were replaced with forced foreign workers, slave labourers, and concentration camp prisoners. The interaction in everyday life between German civilian society and these coerced groups is explored, as is that society’s relationship to the Holocaust.
From early 1943, the war on the home front was increasingly dominated by attack from the air. The role of the Party, administration, police, and courts in providing for the vast numbers of those rendered homeless, in bolstering civilian morale with ‘miracle revenge weapons’ propaganda, and in maintaining order in a society in disintegration is reviewed in detail.
For society in uniform, the war in the east was one of ideology and annihilation, with intensified indoctrination of the troops after Stalingrad. The social profile of this army is analysed through study of a typical infantry division. The volume concludes with an account of the various forms of resistance to Hitler’s regime, in society and the military, culminating in the failed attempt on his life in July 1944.

Table of contents: 

PART I PERCEPTIONS AND ASSIGNED MEANINGS

INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE

A. Nationalism in German War Society 1939-1945 by Sven Oliver Müller

I. NATIONALISM AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM

II. WAR NATIONALISM: THE BIRTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF

A NEW WORLD VIEW, 1914-1939

III. GERMAN SOCIETY’S CONCEPTS OF NATION IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

1. Manipulation and the Assignation of Meaning: Relationship between Propaganda and Nationalism

2. One’s Own and the Others: The Nationalism of the Volksgenossen on the Home Front and Fighting Front

(a) ‘Volksgemeinschaft’: The Collective Vision of the Consensus

(b) The Führer Cult: Was National Socialism a ‘Political Religion’?

(c) Racism: The Biologizing of Society

(d) Anti-Semitism: German Distorted Images of the Jews

IV. THE EXTENT OF, AND LIMITS ON, NATIONALISM AMONG THE GERMAN CIVILIAN POPULATION

1. The Middle Class

2. The Working Class

3. The Rural Population

V. NATIONALISM IN THE WARTIME WEHRMACHT: THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE ‘LITTLE MAN’ ON THE EASTERN FRONT

1. War Mentality: Communication between Front and Home

2. Antipathies: Nationalist Perceptions of Eastern Europe among the Troops

3. ‘Subhumans’: Concepts of Nation and their Action Potential in the War of Annihilation

VI. SUMMARY: NOT JUST HITLER’S NATION

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