The Hitler Youth: We Too Were Victims

Worldview ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 20-22
Author(s):  
Alfons Heck
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Nazi Party ◽  
World War ◽  
Second World ◽  
Hitler Youth

A little over thirty-three years ago, when I was just under seventeen, I was a highranking, dedicated member of the Hitler Youth and one of Germany's youngest pilots. Although the Hitler Youth was far larger than the Nazi party itself in membership, I don't hold myself responsible for the rise of Hitler, the outbreak of the Second World War, or the persecution of Jews and other so-called "sub-humans." I dearly wish, though, that it had never happened. It must never be whitewashed or forgotten.It is impossible for any fair-minded German to deny the genocide of the Jews or to explain how it could have happened without sounding like a pious hypocrite or simple-minded apologist.

Determining ‘People of German Blood’, ‘Jews’ and ‘Mischlinge’: The Reich Kinship Office and the Competing Discourses and Powers of Nazism, 1941–1943

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS PEGELOW
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Nazi Party ◽  
World War ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Police Agencies ◽  
Racial Discourses ◽  
Second World

This article conceptualises the dissemination by Nazi party and state institutions of racial categories of Germanness and Jewishness and the imposition of these categories on segments of the population as a form of linguistic violence. Centring on the Reich Kinship Office during the Second World War, the article argues that racial discourses were not static, but were constantly remade in the practices of the office's employees and their interaction with petitioners desperately seeking to escape persecution. The office's practices exemplify the competing discourses of Nazism, as employees saw the Kinship Office's discourses increasingly undermined by SS and police agencies and their growing power and more radical languages.

An Ambassador for Co-operation

Arthur Szyk ◽  
2004 ◽  
pp. 74-91
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Ansell
Keyword(s):  
Political Activism ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Nazi Party ◽  
World War ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Polish Government ◽  
Second World

This chapter follows Arthur Szyk's career toward the outbreak of the Second World War. This period marked a period of increased political activism on his part. Supported by the highest levels of the Polish government, Szyk's work continued to spread the message of mutual co-operation and freedom, meeting with positive responses during his exhibits. He once again took up the pen as a political caricaturist during this period, adding contemporary images to the message he believed was already embodied in the statute, to help alert people to the worsening situation in Germany. He contributed drawings to several Polish newspapers, highlighting the threats posed by the rise of the Nazi party and commenting on the sad state of affairs experienced by his fellow Jews living in Germany.

Forfatterforeningens æresrett i historisk og juridisk kontekst

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-137
Author(s):  
Espen Søbye
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Nazi Party ◽  
World War ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Nazi Occupation ◽  
War Criminals ◽  
The Government ◽  
Second World ◽  
Shed Light

The denazification of associations, organisations and unions is one of the lesser discussed topics from the aftermath of the Second World War. The trials against the supporters of the Nazi occupation, the Nazi leaders and war criminals have been discussed many times from many perspectives. The exclusion of members of the Norwegian Nazi party and others that sabotaged the resistance line and instead used the occupation years to personal gains of power and wealth, occurred in the organisations by the members without the use of the courtroom. In the organisations the members were both prosecutors and judges when the decisions were made; loss of membership or milder sanctions. The article argues that this was practising the freedom for the citizens to establish and to decide the rules of the organisation without the involvement of the state or other instances. The interest for these processes just after the war and how they were experienced by the members turned from low to high after the writers’ union apologized for the process on their 125 years anniversary meeting in 2018. At first the apology was positively received, but criticism also pointed out that the excuse for this group was not at all like other excuses to Jews, partisans and other victim groups by the government or other representants for the authority. The discussion about the matter shed light on questions about the rule of law for members of organisations and unions, and for the transition of the Norwegian society from occupied to free, from dictatorship to democracy.

From Informal Imperialism to Transnational Relations: Prolegomena to a Study of German Policy towards Latin America, 1918-1933

Itinerario ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-124
Author(s):  
Stefan Rinke
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Nazi Party ◽  
World War ◽  
German States ◽  
Party Members ◽  
Second World

Although never more than a junior partner or rival to the hegemonic powers Great Britain and United States, the German states and later the Reich have since independence played an important role in the foreign relations of Latin America. German-Latin American relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been the subject of a growing body of research over the last three decades. The interest of historians has focused on the development of these relations throughout the nineteenth century, the era of German imperialism 1890-1914, and on the infiltration of National Socialism and its Auslandsorganisation (organization for Nazi party members living abroad) in Latin America from 1933 to 1945. In addition, the reconstruction of German ties to the Latin American states after the Second World War and postwar emigration from Germany to Latin America are subjects which scholars have recendy begun to analyze.

scholarly journals Beyond War Crimes: Denazification, ‘Obnoxious’ Germans and US Policy in Franco's Spain after the Second World War

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID A. MESSENGER
Keyword(s):  
War Crimes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Nazi Party ◽  
World War ◽  
The Us ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

AbstractThis work links the western Allies’ policy of denazification in occupied Germany to efforts to repatriate German intelligence agents and Nazi Party officials – so-called ‘obnoxious’ Germans – from the neutral states of Europe after the Second World War. Once on German soil, these individuals would be subject to internment and investigation as outlined in occupation policy. Using the situation in Franco's Spain as a case study, the article argues that new ideas of neutrality following the war and a strong commitment to the concept of denazification led to the creation of the repatriation policy, especially within the United States. Repatriation was also a way to measure the extent to which Franco's Spain accepted the Allied victory and the defeat of Nazism and fascism. The US perception was that the continued presence of individual Nazis meant the continued influence of Nazism itself. Spain responded half-heartedly, at best. Despite the fact that in terms of numbers repatriated the policy was a failure, the Spanish example demonstrates that the attempted repatriation of ‘obnoxious’ Germans from neutral Europe, although overlooked, was significant not only as part of the immediate post-war settlement but also in its bearing on US ideas about Nazism, security and perceived collaboration of neutral states like Spain.

scholarly journals Ribbentrop: Guilty as Charged

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Alexander Colvin
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Foreign Minister ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Nazi Party ◽  
Final Solution ◽  
World War ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Second World

Joachim von Ribbentrop was the German Foreign Minister during the Second World War. His public denial of complicity in the Holocaust is refuted by historical research, which indicates that he played a significant role in the rise of the Nazi party, conspired to wage wars of aggression and, most importantly, in his role as Foreign Minister, actively participated in the planning and administration of the Nazi Final Solution. His participation included the confiscation of Jewish property, the spreading of anti-Semitic policy abroad, and lastly, the mass deportation and murder of millions of Jews across Europe. This paper addresses the proposed accusations against the accused Ribbentrop, and ultimately comes to a convincing conclusion that Ribbentrop was indeed, a perpetrator of the Holocaust.

Gender and the Second World War

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinna Peniston-Bird ◽  
Emma Vickers
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Second World
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