8 results for "History"
The crisis of German ideology: intellectual origins of the Third Reich
In his classic study of the idealogical sources of National Socialism, George L. Mosse explores a unique complex of anti-democratic ideas deeply embedded in German history. He traces these currents of thought though the 19th and 20th centuries to show how a peculiarly Germanic ideology became institutionalized in the schools, youth movements, veterans' groups and political parties, and how the "German revolution" called for by the ideology's exponents was transformed by Hitler into an "anti-Jewish revolution," and an effective political program as the Nazis rose to power.
Fallen soldiers: reshaping the memory of the world wars
On antisemitism see ch. 8 (pp. 159-181), "The Brutalization of German Politics", an expanded version of the article which appeared in German in "Demokratie und Diktatur: Geist und Gestalt politischer Herrschaft in Deutschland und Europa" (Düsseldorf: Droste, 1987).
The nationalization of the masses: political symbolism and mass movements in Germany from the Napoleonic wars through the Third Reich
Book by George L. Mosse
Nationalism and sexuality: respectability and abnormal sexuality in modern Europe
Traces the relationship between nationalist ideology and the normative manners, morals, and sexuality of modern Europe which emerged at the end of the 18th century. Discusses the view that "outsiders" - homosexual, insane, criminal, or Jewish - were abnormal, and the equation of racial degeneracy with sexual degeneracy. Some homosexuals, wishing to prove their masculinity, attacked Jews and embraced racism. In Weimar Germany, sexual decadence was blamed on the Jews. Ch. 7 (pp. 133-152) deals with the relationship between sexuality and antisemitism in Germany and in Nazi thought.
Masses and man: nationalist and Fascist perceptions of reality
A collection of articles published previously, discussing the growth of radical nationalism and fascism since the end of the 19th century and focusing on its expression in literature and in the arts. The following discuss antisemitism as well:
