Working towards the Fuhrer Essays in honour of Sir Ian Kershaw

by McElligott, Anthony; Kirk, Tim

• ISBN13: 9780719067334
• ISBN10: 0719067332
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-24
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

Working Towards the Fuuml;hrerbrings together leading historians writing on the Third Reich, in honor of Sir Ian Kershaw, whose own work, along with that of the contributors to this volume has done much to challenge and change our understanding of Nazi Germany. Covering issues such as the legacy of the world wars, the female voter, propaganda, occupied lands, the judiciary, public opinion and resistance, this volume furthers the debate on how Nazi Germany operated. Gone are the post-war stereotypes of a monolithic state driven forward by a single will towards war and genocide. Instead there is a more complex picture of the regime and its actions, one that shows the instability of the dictatorship, its dependence on a measure of consent as well as coercion, which recognizes the constraints on political action, the fickleness of popular attitudes and the ambiguous, ephemeral nature of acclamation and opposition alike.

Author Biography

Anthony McElligott is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Historical Research, University of Limerick.

Tim Kirk is Lecturer in European History at the University of Newcastle.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	vi
Notes on contributors	vii
Editors' introduction	1	(14)
Catastrophe and democracy: the legacy of the world wars in Germany	15	(26)
Richard Bessel
Hitler--Goebbels--Straßer: a war of deputies, as seen through the Goebbels diaries, 1926--27	41	(27)
Elke Frohlich
Mobilising women for Hitler: the female Nazi voter	68	(25)
Helen Boak
`Working towards the Fuhrer': charismatic leadership and the image of Adolf Hitler in Nazi propaganda	93	(25)
David Welch
`Viceroys of the Reich'? Gauleiters 1925--45	118	(35)
Jeremy Noakes
`Sentencing towards the Fuhrer? The judiciary in the Third Reich	153	(33)
Anthony McElligott
Nazi masters and accommodating Dutch bureaucrats: working towards the Fuhrer in the occupied Netherlands, 1940--45	186	(19)
Bob Moore
Working towards the Reich: the reception of German cultural politics in South-Eastern Europe	205	(19)
Tim Kirk
Assessing the `other Germany': the Political Warfare Executive on public opinion and resistance in Germany, 1943--45	224	(22)
Pauline Elkes
Beyond the nation state: the German resistance against Hitler, and the future of Europe	246	(14)
Hans Mommsen
Personal reflections on Ian Kershaw	260	(5)
John Breuilly
Jan Kershaw bibliography	265	(4)
Nadine Rossoi
Index	269