Germany and the Second World War
Volume IX/I: German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the Struggle for Survival
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 July 2008
- ISBN 9780199282777
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1080 pages
- Size 240x162x58 mm
- Weight 1364 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 diagrams 0
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Short description:
Volume IX/I of this series focuses on how the war affected individuals - from soldiers to slave labourers. After examining the Party's role in moulding public attitudes and how German society related to the Holocaust, it looks at the social structure of military units, ideological indoctrination of the troops, and resistance to the regime.
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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.
[Part of] a succession of mighty volumes ... The portrait of German wartime society presented by this book is somber, meticulously documented, cool, reasoned.
Table of Contents:
A: At War, Abroad and at Home: The Essential Features of German Society in the Second World War
'War on Two Fronts'
A Coherent War Society?
Violence Given Free Reign
Principles for and Structure of the Volumes
PART 1: RULE, DESTROY, SURVIVE
B: The NSDAP, the War, and German Society
Pre-war Structure and Functions of the NSDAP
Mobilizing the Troops and Moulding Minds and Behaviour at Home (September 1939 to April 1941)
'People Management' on the Home Front (May 1941 to July 1943)
On the Road to Total War (August 1943 to May 1945)
The NSDAP and the Volksgemeinschaft
C: Slaves for the 'Home Front'. War Society and Concentration Camps
Public Awareness of the Concentration Camps
The Initial Stages of Prisoner Deployment
Urban Satellite Contentration Camps
The Camps and German Society
Concentration Camps Anchored in German Society
D. Decisions to Murder and to Lie. German War Society and the Holocaust
Introduction
Holocaust and War
Society and Holocaust in the War
Normality of the Unimaginable: War within the War
E. Wartime Daily Life and the Air War on the Home Front
The Bombing War seen as an Historical Event
The War, as seen on the Home Front
'Fully Serving the Defence Efforts': The Administration, Police, and Courts
Coping with the Bombing War
Accommodation, Provisioning, and Replacement Homes
'Revenge' and Miracle Weapons Propaganda
The 'Society in Disintegration', 1944/45
The Bombing War in Figures
PART II: THE UNIFORMED SOCIETY
Introduction to Part II
A. Ideological Warfare in Germany 1919 to 1945
The Legacy of the First World War
The Politicization of the Reichswehr/Wehrmacht
Ideological Warfare in the Early, Victorious Phase
The War of Ideology and Annihilation in the East
Between Optimism and Defiance: War Fought Under Military-Ideological Guidance
The Shock of Stalingrad and the Crisis of Military-Ideological Guidance
The 'F--hrer Order' of 22 December 1943
Ideological Indoctrination and Personnel Selection
The Totalness of National Socialism after 20 July 1944
B. The Social Profile of the German Army's Combat Units 1939-1945
Principles and Prospects for Researching the Social Structures of Wehrmacht Units
Changes in the Organizational Structure of the Army
Analysis of a Specimen Infantry Division
Results
C. Military Resistance Activities and the War
Resistance in German War Society
The Military Conspiracy. Military Motives for Resistance
The War as Crime
Communist Resistance During the War
The Battle with the Party and the SS
The Organization of the Coup D'Etat. General Staff Plans and the Military Putsch
Resistance and Ending the War
Resistance Activities Unconnected with 20 July 1944
Efforts and Consequences
Mutiny or Moral Revulsion
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