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Indlæser... Backing Hitler. Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germanyaf Robert Gellately
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Prateleira 8 Livro 57 Germans welcomed Hitler’s ascension to power in January 1933 when the Great Depression was ravaging Germany. People lost money, jobs and, for those who suicided, their lives. The Weimar Republic, proclaimed in 1919, was borne out of revolution and wasn’t supported by most of the major political parties. The democratic government seemed powerless to stop the suffering. Gellately argues the promise of stability, harmony and prosperity fulfilled the yearning of many Germans. The Nazis governed Germany through consensus and coercion. Germans knew their government was brutal – from the outset. Gellately’s intensive research of local, regional and national newspapers shows they reported the regime’s brutality, albeit in a positive light. Concentration camps were to rehabilitate hardened criminals by giving them a regime of discipline and work. The previous government was soft on crime but now criminals were off the streets. Gellately draws on the diaries of Jew Victor Klemperer who wrote people looked the other way as authorities deprived Jews of rights and, ultimately, life. Gellately is among the many historians who deems the Weimar Republic a failure. The argument’s flaw is millions of Germans voted for republican-supporting parties up to and including the last free election in November 1932. These were the same people whose lives were decimated by the economic crisis, yet they held true to the republic’s democratic and human rights ideals. Backing Hitler is a comprehensive account of the lead-up to Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany and beyond. It’s easy to judge Germans for looking the other way but today it isn’t just fascist governments denying human rights and dispensing cruelty. Democratic governments also are administering similar policies of cruelty, exclusion and punishment of the innocent. Some of these countries were among the Allies during World War Two. «Ho cominciato il mio lavoro muovendo da una delle grandi domande poste dopo il 1945, quando si seppe dei campi di concentramento, ossia: 'Che cosa sapevano, e quando l'hanno saputo? Sapevano i tedeschi della polizia segreta e dei campi, delle persecuzioni, degli assassinii e così via, e accettarono tutto questo? I tedeschi si sono difesi dicendo che ignoravano l'esistenza dei campi o ne sapevano pochissimo, e che le rivelazioni giunte alla fine della guerra erano state per loro una sorpresa. Tra gli storici c'è stato per lungo tempo un consenso quasi unanime sul fatto che i nazisti occultarono deliberatamente e sistematicamente ciò che facevano, ed era dunque plausibile che la gente comune non sapesse. Questo saggio, risultato delle mie ricerche, dimostra il contrario» Hitler gozó durante su mandato de una popularidad y un respaldo que han permitido al profesor de la Universidad de Floridaacuñar la expresión “dictadura consensuada”. En Backing Hitler: consent and coercion in Nazi Germany (traducido como No sólo Hitler. La Alemania nazi, entre la coacción y el consenso), Gellatelly repasa el alto grado de conocimiento que tenían los alemanes de los principales elementos del terror nazi, como la Gestapo, la justicia policial, los campos de concentración, o el tratamiento a los trabajadores extranjeros. El libro revela cuáles de estas medidas (casi todas) contaban con un apoyo, al menos genérico, de la población, que quería mano dura contra la delincuencia (entendida en un sentido muy amplio), aunque en ocasiones se manifestaban reservas sobre las medidas más duras, especialmente en lo que se refiere a las ejecuciones sumarísimas. Gellately analiza varios archivos de la Gestapo para descubrir cómo la policía secreta no necesitaba contar con una red opresiva de espías profesionales, porque los propios alemanes de a pie se encargaban de denunciar a los judíos, a los trabajadores polacos que mantenían relaciones con las mujeres alemanas, o a sus vecinos que escuchaban la BBC. En muchos casos, los intereses personales o la venganza pesaban en las motivaciones de los denunciantes bastante más que el compromiso ideológico o el odio al enemigo. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Using primary evidence, the author reveals the social consensus behind the Nazi regime and persecution of racial minorities & social outsiders. Debate still rages over how much ordinary Germans knew about the concentration camps and the Gestapo's activities during Hitler's reign. Now, in this well-documented and provocative volume, historian Robert Gellately argues that the majority of German citizens had quite a clear picture of the extent of Nazi atrocities, and continued to support the Reich to the bitter end. Culling chilling evidence from primary news sources and citing dozens of case studies, Gellately shows how media reports and press stories were an essential dimension of Hitler's popular dictatorship. Indeed, a vast array of material on the concentration camps, the violent campaigns against social outsiders, and the Nazis' radical approaches to law and order was published in the media of the day, and was widely read by a highly literate population of Germans. Hitler, Gellately reveals, did not try to hide the existence of the Gestapo or of concentration camps. Nor did the Nazis try to cow the people into submission. Instead they set out to win converts by building on popular images, cherished ideals, and long-held phobias. And their efforts succeeded, Gellately concludes, for the Gestapo's monstrous success was due, in large part, to ordinary German citizens who singled out suspected enemies in their midst, reporting their suspicions and allegations freely and in a spirit of cooperation and patriotism. Extensively documented, highly readable and illustrated with never-before-published photographs, Backing Hitler convincingly debunks the myth that Nazi atrocities were carried out in secret. From the rise of the Third Reich well into the final, desperate months of the war, the destruction of innocent lives was inextricably linked to the will of the German people. The Nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after Hitler took power most Germans turned away from democracy and backed the Nazi regime. Hitler was able to win growing support even as he established the Gestapo and concentration camps. Yet for over fifty years historians have disputed what the German people knew about these camps and in what ways they were involved in the persecution of race enemies, slave workers, and social outsiders. In this ground-breaking study of Nazi terror within Germany, Robert Gellately finally answers these questions. The author exposes once and for all the substantial consent and active participation of large numbers of ordinary Germans in the terror. He shows that rather than hide their racist and repressive campaigns from the German people the Nazis trumpeted them in the national papers and on the streets. He reveals how they drew on popular images, cherished German ideals, and long held phobias to win converts to their cause. Tracing the story from 1933 to its grim conclusion in 1945, he demonstrates how war and the prospect of defeat radicalized Nazism. As the country spiralled towards defeat, Germans for the most part held on stubbornly. For anyone who dared contemplate surrender or resistance, terror became the order of the day. No library descriptions found. |
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