When Hitler assumed power in 1933, he and other Nazis had firm ideas on 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 anti-Semitism, 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.

Frequently asked questions

Simply head over to the account section in settings and click on “Cancel Subscription” - it’s as simple as that. After you cancel, your membership will stay active for the remainder of the time you’ve paid for. Learn more here.

At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.

Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlego’s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan you’ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.

We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.

Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.

Yes, you can access Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany by Robert Gellately, Nathan Stoltzfus, Robert Gellately,Nathan Stoltzfus in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Histoire & Histoire de l'Allemagne. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Year

2018

ISBN

9780691188355

Topic

Histoire

Subtopic

Histoire de l'Allemagne

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
CHAPTER 1 Social Outsiders and the Construction of the Community of the People
CHAPTER 2 Social Outsiders in German History: From the Sixteenth Century to 1933
CHAPTER 3 No “Volksgenossen”: Jewish Entrepreneurs in the Third Reich
CHAPTER 4 When the Ordinary Became Extraordinary: German Jews Reacting to Nazi Persecution, 1933–1939
CHAPTER 5 The Nazi Purge of German Artistic and Cultural Life
CHAPTER 6 The Limits of Policy: Social Protection of Intermarried German Jews in Nazi Germany
CHAPTER 7 The Exclusion and Murder of the Disabled
CHAPTER 8 From Indefinite Confinement to Extermination: “Habitual Criminals” in the Third Reich
CHAPTER 9 The Ambivalent Outsider: Prostitution, Promiscuity, and VD Control in Nazi Berlin
CHAPTER 10 “Gypsies” as Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany
CHAPTER 11 The Institutionalization of Homosexual Panic in the Third Reich
CHAPTER 12 Police Justice, Popular Justice, and Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany: The Example of Polish Foreign Workers
CHAPTER 13 Sex, Blood, and Vulnerability: Women Outsiders in German- Occupied Europe
CHAPTER 14 Social Outcasts in War and Genocide: A Comparative Perspective
List of Contributors
Index