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Germany and the Second World War Volume IX/I: German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the Struggle for Survival

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    9780198738350

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    0198738358

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2015-07-07
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Author Biography


Ralf Blank, Lecturer in modern and recent history at the Ruhr University at Bochum,Jorg Echternkamp, Research Institute for Military History, Potsdam,Karola Fings, Lecturer at University of Cologne,Jurgen Forster, Adjunct professor at Freiburg University,Winfried Heinemann, Research Institute for Military History, Potsdam,Tobias Jersak, 2000-2004 lecturer in history (University of Stuttgart) and church history (University of Munster),Armin Nolzen, Ruhr University, Bochum,Christoph Rass, Aachen University

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Table of Contents


A: At War, Abroad and at Home: The Essential Features of German Society in the Second World War Jorg Echternkamp
1. 'War on Two Fronts'
2. A Coherent War Society?
3. Violence Given Free Reign
4. Principles for and Structure of the Volumes
PART 1: RULE, DESTROY, SURVIVE
B: The NSDAP, the War, and German Society Armin Nolzen
1. Pre-war Structure and Functions of the NSDAP
2. Mobilizing the Troops and Moulding Minds and Behaviour at Home (September 1939 to April 1941)
3. 'People Management' on the Home Front (May 1941 to July 1943)
4. On the Road to Total War (August 1943 to May 1945)
5. The NSDAP and the Volksgemeinschaft
C: Slaves for the 'Home Front'. War Society and Concentration Camps Karola Fings
1. Public Awareness of the Concentration Camps
2. The Initial Stages of Prisoner Deployment
3. Urban Satellite Contentration Camps
4. The Camps and German Society
5. Concentration Camps Anchored in German Society
D. Decisions to Murder and to Lie. German War Society and the Holocaust Tobias Jersak
1. Introduction
2. Holocaust and War
3. Society and Holocaust in the War
4. Normality of the Unimaginable: War within the War
E. Wartime Daily Life and the Air War on the Home Front Ralf Blank
1. The Bombing War seen as an Historical Event
2. The War, as seen on the Home Front
3. 'Fully Serving the Defence Efforts': The Administration, Police, and Courts
4. Coping with the Bombing War
5. Accommodation, Provisioning, and Replacement Homes
6. 'Revenge' and Miracle Weapons Propaganda
7. The 'Society in Disintegration', 1944/45
8. The Bombing War in Figures
PART II: THE UNIFORMED SOCIETY
Introduction to Part II
A. Ideological Warfare in Germany 1919 to 1945 Jurgen Forster
1. The Legacy of the First World War
2. The Politicization of the Reichswehr/Wehrmacht
3. Ideological Warfare in the Early, Victorious Phase
4. The War of Ideology and Annihilation in the East
5. Between Optimism and Defiance: War Fought Under Military-Ideological Guidance
6. The Shock of Stalingrad and the Crisis of Military-Ideological Guidance
7. The 'Fuhrer Order' of 22 December 1943
8. Ideological Indoctrination and Personnel Selection
9. The Totalness of National Socialism after 20 July 1944
B. The Social Profile of the German Army's Combat Units 1939-1945 Christoph Rass
1. Principles and Prospects for Researching the Social Structures of Wehrmacht Units
2. Changes in the Organizational Structure of the Army
3. Analysis of a Specimen Infantry Division
4. Results
C. Military Resistance Activities and the War Winfried Heinemann
1. Resistance in German War Society
2. The Military Conspiracy. Military Motives for Resistance
3. The War as Crime
4. Communist Resistance During the War
5. The Battle with the Party and the SS
6. The Organization of the Coup D'Etat. General Staff Plans and the Military Putsch
7. Resistance and Ending the War
8. Resistance Activities Unconnected with 20 July 1944
9. Efforts and Consequences
10. Mutiny or Moral Revulsion
Bibliography

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