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Social outsiders in Nazi Germany

Title
Social outsiders in Nazi Germany / edited by Robert Gellately and Nathan Stoltzfus.
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Gellately, Robert, 1943-
  • Stoltzfus, Nathan.
Description
vi, 332 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
  • When Hitler assumed power in 1933, he and other Nazis had firm ideas about 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 antisemitism, 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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Social outsiders and the construction of the community of the people / Robert Gellately and Nathan Stoltzfus -- Social outsiders in German history: from the sixteenth century to 1933 / Richard J. Evans -- No "Volksgenossen": Jewish entrepreneurs in the Third Reich / Frank Bajohr -- When the ordinary became extraordinary: German Jews reacting to Nazi persecution, 1933-1939 / Marion A. Kaplan -- The Nazi purge of German artistic and cultural life / Alan E. Steinweis -- The limits of policy: social protection of intermarried German Jews in Nazi Germany / Nathan Stoltzfus -- The exclusion and murder of the disabled / Henry Friedlander -- From indefinite confinement to extermination: "habitual criminals" in the Third Reich / Nikolaus Wachsmann -- The ambivalent outsider: prostitution, promiscuity, and VD control in Nazi Berlin / Annette F. Timm -- "Gypsies" as social outsiders in Nazi Germany / Sybil H. Milton -- The institutionalization of homosexual panic in the Third Reich / Geoffrey J. Giles -- Police justice, popular justice, and social outsiders in Nazi Germany: the example of Polish foreign workers / Robert Gellately -- Sex, blood, and vulnerability: women outsiders in German-occupied Europe / Doris L. Bergen -- Social outcasts in war and genocide: a comparative perspective / Omer Bartov.
ISBN
  • 0691007489
  • 9780691007489
  • 0691086842
  • 9780691086842
LCCN
  • 00059827
  • 9780691086842
OCLC
  • ocm44633055
  • 44633055
  • SCSB-1217707
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library