Belonging and Genocide
Title | Belonging and Genocide PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Kühne |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 243 |
Release | 2010-10-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300168578 |
No one has ever posed a satisfactory explanation for the extreme inhumanity of the Holocaust. What was going on in the heads and hearts of the millions of Germans who either participated in or condoned the murder of the Jews? In this provocative book, Thomas Kuhne offers a new answer. A genocidal society was created not only by the hatred of Jews or by coercion, Kuhne contends, but also by the love of Germans for one another, their desire for a united "people's community," the Volksgemeinschaft. During the Third Reich, Germans learned to connect with one another by becoming brother and sisters in mass crime.
Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft and the Dynamics of Racial Exclusion
Title | Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft and the Dynamics of Racial Exclusion PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Wildt |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2012-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 085745322X |
In the spring of 1933, German society was deeply divided – in the Reichstag elections on 5 March, only a small percentage voted for Hitler. Yet, once he seized power, his creation of a socially inclusive Volksgemeinschaft, promising equality, economic prosperity and the restoration of honor and pride after the humiliating ending of World War I persuaded many Germans to support him and to shut their eyes to dictatorial coercion, concentration camps, secret state police, and the exclusion of large sections of the population. The author argues however, that the everyday practice of exclusion changed German society itself: bureaucratic discrimination and violent anti-Jewish actions destroyed the civil and constitutional order and transformed the German nation into an aggressive and racist society. Based on rich source material, this book offers one of the most comprehensive accounts of this transformation as it traces continuities and discontinuities and the replacement of a legal order with a violent one, the extent of which may not have been intended by those involved.
In Pursuit of Belonging
Title | In Pursuit of Belonging PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Beth Rottmann |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 215 |
Release | 2019-06-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1789202701 |
Belonging is a not a state that we achieve, but a struggle that we wage. The struggle for belonging is more difficult if one is returning to a homeland after many years abroad. In Pursuit of Belonging is an ethnography of Turkish migrants’ struggle for understanding, intimacy and appreciation when they return from Germany to their Turkish homeland. Drawing on an established tradition of life story writing in anthropology, Rottmann conveys the struggle to forge an ethical life by relating the experiences of a second-generation German-Turkish woman named Leyla.
Belonging in Oceania
Title | Belonging in Oceania PDF eBook |
Author | Elfriede Hermann |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 2014-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1782384162 |
Ethnographic case studies explore what it means to “belong” in Oceania, as contributors consider ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, internal and international migration. The chapters apply the multi-dimensional concepts of movement, place-making and cultural identifications to explain contemporary life in Oceanic societies. The volume closes by suggesting that constructions of multiple belongings—and, with these, the relevant forms of mobility, place-making and identifications—are being recontextualized and modified by emerging discourses of climate change and sea-level rise.
How Could This Happen
Title | How Could This Happen PDF eBook |
Author | Dan McMillan |
Publisher | Basic Books a Member of Perseus Books Group |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2014-04-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0465080243 |
A German historian attempts to explain how the Holocaust happened, discussing how widespread acceptance of anti-Semitism and scientific racism in the politically divided post-World War I era lessened the value of human life. 17,500 first printing.
Mixed Messages
Title | Mixed Messages PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn E. Graber |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2020-08-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1501750526 |
Focusing on language and media in Asian Russia, particularly in Buryat territories, Mixed Messages engages debates about the role of minority media in society, alternative visions of modernity, and the impact of media on everyday language use. Graber demonstrates that language and the production, circulation, and consumption of media are practices by which residents of the region perform and negotiate competing possible identities. What languages should be used in newspapers, magazines, or radio and television broadcasts? Who should produce them? What kinds of publics are and are not possible through media? How exactly do discourses move into, out of, and through the media to affect everyday social practices? Mixed Messages addresses these questions through a rich ethnography of the Russian Federation's Buryat territories, a multilingual and multiethnic region on the Mongolian border with a complex relationship to both Europe and Asia. Mixed Messages shows that belonging in Asian Russia is a dynamic process that one cannot capture analytically by using straightforward categories of ethnolinguistic identity.
Nazi Germany
Title | Nazi Germany PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Caplan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 201 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 0198706952 |
Nazi Germany may have only lasted for 12 years, but it has left a legacy that still echoes with us today. This work discusses the emergence and appeal of the Nazi party, the relationship between consent and terror in securing the regime, the role played by Hitler himself, and the dark stains of war, persecution, and genocide left by Nazi Germany.