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1998 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 148-152
Author(s):  
Albert S. Lindemann
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Working Class ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Political Dissent ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
National Community ◽  
Weimar Germany

The Rise of National Socialism in Germany

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-522
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Herf
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Weimar Germany ◽  
The Core ◽  
Before And After ◽  
History Of

Peter Fritzsche, Germans into Nazis (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), 269 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0-674-35091-X.Dan P. Silverman, Hitler's Economy: Nazi Work Creation Programs, 1933–1936 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), 384 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-674-74071-8.Roderick Stackelberg, Hitler's Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies (London and New York: Routledge, 1999), 432 pp., hb, £50.00, ISBN 0-415-2011414-4.Conan Fischer, ed., The Rise of National Socialism and the Working Classes in Weimar Germany (Providence and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1996), 256 pp., hb, $55.00, £37.00, ISBN 1-571-81915-0.Saul Friedlander, Nazi Germany and the Jews, Vol. I: The Era of Persecution, 1933–1939 (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), 448 pp., hb, $30.00 ISBN 0-060-19042-6.These works address, among other issues, the following: how widespread was support for Nazism before and after 1933 and how can this support be explained? What was the core of Nazi antisemitism, how important was it to the history of the regime, and how was it translated into policy? Several also demonstrate that, amidst the vast forest of specialist studies, it is also possible to write valuable synthetic works.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Helen Roche
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Educational History ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
National Community ◽  
The Third ◽  
Depth Analysis

This chapter explains the Napolas’ significance within the Nazi state, laying out the main arguments of the book as a whole. It sketches the programmatic intentions of the key figures involved in the schools’ founding and subsequent development—Reich Education Minister Bernhard Rust, and NPEA-Inspectors Joachim Haupt and August Heißmeyer. It also provides an overview of relevant sources and secondary literature, as well as a brief summary of the schools’ overall aims and ethos. Put simply, we can see the Napolas as a microcosm in which many of the Third Reich’s most fundamental tendencies can be found in magnified form. The schools aimed to realize the more ‘Socialist’ elements of National Socialism by providing free or heavily subsidized places for children from working-class families, whilst also forming pupils into the avant-garde of the Volksgemeinschaft (the Nazi national community defined by race). All in all, in-depth analysis of the Napolas proves the worth of treating educational history as contemporary history, rather than leaving it languishing on the sub-disciplinary margins of historical enquiry.

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