The Nazi Conscience

The Nazi Conscience
Title The Nazi Conscience PDF eBook
Author Claudia Koonz
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 376
Release 2003-11-26
Genre History
ISBN 9780674011724

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Koonz’s latest work reveals how racial popularizers developed the infrastructure and rationale for genocide during the so-called normal years before World War II. Challenging conventional assumptions about Hitler, Koonz locates the source of his charisma not in his summons to hate, but in his appeal to the collective virtue of his people, the Volk.

Brownshirt Princess

Brownshirt Princess
Title Brownshirt Princess PDF eBook
Author Lionel Gossman
Publisher Open Book Publishers
Pages 217
Release 2009
Genre History
ISBN 1906924066

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"Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a rebellious young writer who became a fervent Nazi. Heinrich Vogeler was a well-regarded artist who was to join the German Communist Party. Ludwig Roselius was a successful businessman who had made a fortune from his invention of decaffeinated coffee. What was it about the revolutionary climate following World War I that induced three such different personalities to collaborate in the production of a slim volume of poetry -- entitled Gott in mir -- about the indwelling of the divine within the human? Lionel Gossman's study situates this poem in the ideological context that made the collaboration possible. The study also outlines the subsequent life of the Princess who, until her death in 1993, continued to support and celebrate the ideals and heroes of National Socialism"--Publisher's description.

Mothers in the Fatherland

Mothers in the Fatherland
Title Mothers in the Fatherland PDF eBook
Author Claudia Koonz
Publisher Routledge
Pages 600
Release 2013-05-07
Genre History
ISBN 1136213805

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From extensive research, including a remarkable interview with the unrepentant chief of Hitler’s Women’s Bureau, this book traces the roles played by women – as followers, victims and resisters – in the rise of Nazism. Originally publishing in 1987, it is an important contribution to the understanding of women’s status, culpability, resistance and victimisation at all levels of German society, and a record of astonishing ironies and paradoxical morality, of compromise and courage, of submission and survival.

The Outraged Conscience

The Outraged Conscience
Title The Outraged Conscience PDF eBook
Author Rochelle G. Saidel
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 268
Release 1984-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780873958974

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Tells the stories of dedicated U.S. citizens who have worked for the identification and deportation of Nazi war criminals living in America

Konrad Morgen

Konrad Morgen
Title Konrad Morgen PDF eBook
Author H. Pauer-Studer
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 0
Release 2015-05-07
Genre History
ISBN 9781137496942

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Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge is a moral biography of Georg Konrad Morgen, who prosecuted crimes committed by members of the SS in Nazi concentration camps and eventually came face-to-face with the system of industrialized murder at Auschwitz. His wartime papers and postwar testimonies yield a study in moral complexity.

The Nazi Conscience

The Nazi Conscience
Title The Nazi Conscience PDF eBook
Author Claudia Koonz
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 376
Release 2005-11-30
Genre History
ISBN 0674254953

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The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic community and denounced outsiders. Claudia Koonz's latest work reveals how racial popularizers developed the infrastructure and rationale for genocide during the so-called normal years before World War II. Her careful reading of the voluminous Nazi writings on race traces the transformation of longtime Nazis' vulgar anti-Semitism into a racial ideology that seemed credible to the vast majority of ordinary Germans who never joined the Nazi Party. Challenging conventional assumptions about Hitler, Koonz locates the source of his charisma not in his summons to hate, but in his appeal to the collective virtue of his people, the Volk. From 1933 to 1939, Nazi public culture was saturated with a blend of racial fear and ethnic pride that Koonz calls ethnic fundamentalism. Ordinary Germans were prepared for wartime atrocities by racial concepts widely disseminated in media not perceived as political: academic research, documentary films, mass-market magazines, racial hygiene and art exhibits, slide lectures, textbooks, and humor. By showing how Germans learned to countenance the everyday persecution of fellow citizens labeled as alien, Koonz makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust. The Nazi Conscience chronicles the chilling saga of a modern state so powerful that it extinguished neighborliness, respect, and, ultimately, compassion for all those banished from the ethnic majority.

Conscience and Courage

Conscience and Courage
Title Conscience and Courage PDF eBook
Author Eva Fogelman
Publisher Anchor
Pages 417
Release 2011-08-17
Genre History
ISBN 0307797945

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In this brilliantly researched and insightful book, psychologist Eva Fogelman presents compelling stories of rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust--and offers a revealing analysis of their motivations. Based on her extensive experience as a therapist treating Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and those who helped them, Fogelman delves into the psychology of altruism, illuminating why these rescuers chose to act while others simply stood by. While analyzing motivations, Conscience And Courage tells the stories of such little-known individuals as Stefnaia Podgorska Burzminska, a Polish teenager who hid thirteen Jews in her home; Alexander Roslan, a dealer in the black market who kept uprooting his family to shelter three Jewish children in his care, as well as more heralded individuals such as Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg, and Miep Gies. Speaking to the same audience that flocked to Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-winning movie, Schindler's List, Conscience And Courage is the first book to go beyond the stories to answer the question: Why did they help?