German wartime society 1939-1945 : politicization, disintegration, and the struggle for survival

Ralf Blank ... [et al.] ; translated by Derry Cook-Radmore ... [et al.] ; translation editor, Derry Cook-Radmore

The Second World War affected the lives and shaped the experience of millions of individuals in Germany - soldiers at the front, women, children and the elderly sheltering in cellars, slave labourers toiling in factories, and concentration-camp prisoners and POWs clearing rubble in the Reich's devastated cities. Taking a 'history from below' approach, the volume examines how the minds and behaviour of individuals were moulded by the Party as the Reich took the road to Total War. The ever-increasing numbers of German workers conscripted into the Wehrmacht were replaced with forced foreign workers and slave labourers and concentration camp prisoners. The interaction in everyday life between German civilian society and these coerced groups is explored, as is that society>'s relationship to the Holocaust. From early 1943, the war on the home front was increasingly dominated by attack from the air. The role of the Party, administration, police, and courts in providing for the vast numbers of those rendered homeless, in bolstering civilian morale with 'miracle revenge weapons' propaganda, and in maintaining order in a society in disintegration is reviewed in detail. For society in uniform, the war in the east was one of ideology and annihilation, with intensified indoctrination of the troops after Stalingrad. The social profile of this army is analysed through study of a typical infantry division. The volume concludes with an account of the various forms of resistance to Hitler's regime, in society and the military, culminating in the failed attempt on his life in July 1944.

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[目次]

  • A: AT WAR, ABROAD AND AT HOME: THE ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF GERMAN SOCIETY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
  • 1. 'War on Two Fronts'
  • 2. A Coherent War Society?
  • 3. Violence Given Free Reign
  • 4. Principles for and Structure of the Volumes
  • PART 1: RULE, DESTROY, SURVIVE
  • B: THE NSDAP, THE WAR, AND GERMAN SOCIETY
  • 1. Pre-war Structure and Functions of the NSDAP
  • 2. Mobilizing the Troops and Moulding Minds and Behaviour at Home (September 1939 to April 1941)
  • 3. 'People Management' on the Home Front (May 1941 to July 1943)
  • 4. On the Road to Total War (August 1943 to May 1945)
  • 5. The NSDAP and the Volksgemeinschaft
  • C: SLAVES FOR THE 'HOME FRONT'. WAR SOCIETY AND CONCENTRATION CAMPS
  • 1. Public Awareness of the Concentration Camps
  • 2. The Initial Stages of Prisoner Deployment
  • 3. Urban Satellite Contentration Camps
  • 4. The Camps and German Society
  • 5. Concentration Camps Anchored in German Society
  • D. DECISIONS TO MURDER AND TO LIE. GERMAN WAR SOCIETY AND THE HOLOCAUST
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Holocaust and War
  • 3. Society and Holocaust in the War
  • 4. Normality of the Unimaginable: War within the War
  • E. WARTIME DAILY LIFE AND THE AIR WAR ON THE HOME FRONT
  • 1. The Bombing War seen as an Historical Event
  • 2. The War, as seen on the Home Front
  • 3. 'Fully Serving the Defence Efforts': The Administration, Police, and Courts
  • 4. Coping with the Bombing War
  • 5. Accommodation, Provisioning, and Replacement Homes
  • 6. 'Revenge' and Miracle Weapons Propaganda
  • 7. The 'Society in Disintegration', 1944/45
  • 8. The Bombing War in Figures
  • PART II: THE UNIFORMED SOCIETY
  • Introduction to Part II
  • A. IDEOLOGICAL WARFARE IN GERMANY 1919 TO 1945
  • 1. The Legacy of the First World War
  • 2. The Politicization of the Reichswehr/Wehrmacht
  • 3. Ideological Warfare in the Early, Victorious Phase
  • 4. The War of Ideology and Annihilation in the East
  • 5. Between Optimism and Defiance: War Fought Under Military-Ideological Guidance
  • 6. The Shock of Stalingrad and the Crisis of Military-Ideological Guidance
  • 7. The 'Fuhrer Order' of 22 December 1943
  • 8. Ideological Indoctrination and Personnel Selection
  • 9. The Totalness of National Socialism after 20 July 1944
  • B. THE SOCIAL PROFILE OF THE GERMAN ARMY'S COMBAT UNITS 1939-1945
  • 1. Principles and Prospects for Researching the Social Structures of Wehrmacht Units
  • 2. Changes in the Organizational Structure of the Army
  • 3. Analysis of a Specimen Infantry Division
  • 4. Results
  • C. MILITARY RESISTANCE ACTIVITIES AND THE WAR
  • 1. Resistance in German War Society
  • 2. The Military Conspiracy. Military Motives for Resistance
  • 3. The War as Crime
  • 4. Communist Resistance During the War
  • 5. The Battle with the Party and the SS
  • 6. The Organization of the Coup D'Etat. General Staff Plans and the Military Putsch
  • 7. Resistance and Ending the War
  • 8. Resistance Activities Unconnected with 20 July 1944
  • 9. Efforts and Consequences
  • 10. Mutiny or Moral Revulsion
  • Bibliography

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書名 German wartime society 1939-1945 : politicization, disintegration, and the struggle for survival
著作者等 Cook-Radmore, Derry
Echternkamp Jorg
Fings Karola
Forster Jurgen
Heinemann Winifried
Jersak Tobias
Nolzen Armin
Rass Christoph
Blank Ralf
シリーズ名 Germany and the Second World War
出版元 Clarendon Press
刊行年月 2008
ページ数 xxxvii, 1035 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 9780199282777
NCID BA86487569
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言語 英語
原文言語 ドイツ語
出版国 イギリス
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