An Uncompromising Generation: The Nazi Leadership of the Reich Security Main Office - Couverture souple

Wildt, Michael

 
9780299234645: An Uncompromising Generation: The Nazi Leadership of the Reich Security Main Office
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0299234649 ISBN 13 : 9780299234645
Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2010

Synopsis

In An Uncompromising Generation, Michael Wildt follows the journey of a strikingly homogenous group of young academics—who came from the educated, bourgeois stratum of society—as they started to identify with the Nazi concept of Volksgemeinschaft, which labeled Jews as enemies of the people and justified their murder.
    Wildt’s study traces the intellectual evolution of key members of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) from their days as students until the end of World War II. Established in 1939, this office fused together the Gestapo, the Criminal Police, and the Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service) of the SS. Far from being small cogs in a big bureaucratic machine, Wildt finds that the people who made up the RSHA constructed the concepts and operated the apparatus that carried out the Holocaust.
    At the center of both theory and practice of persecution and genocide in Nazi-occupied Europe, these young men of the RSHA—none of whom envisioned the systematic annihilation of the European Jews—became radicalized. How this occurred is the central question of Wildt’s book. Wildt also discusses the postwar careers of the members of the RSHA. Strikingly, he shows how the leaders of the RSHA evaded the consequences of their actions under the Nazi regime and went on to have important careers in the rebuilt West Germany.

An alternate selection of the History Book Club and Military Book Club

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À propos des auteurs

Michael Wildt is a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and associate professor of modern history at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Tom Lampert is a freelance translator and writer who lives in Bad Kreuznach, Germany.

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Éditeur
University of Wisconsin Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0299234649
ISBN 13 
9780299234645
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
569
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Personne responsable
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