General Information

Author/Creator

Burleigh, Michael, 1955-

Language

English.

Published

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Physical Description

xiv, 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Wippermann, Wolfgang, 1945-2021.

Contents/Summary

Summary

Between 1933 and 1945 the Nazi regime in Germany tried to restructure a "class" society along racial lines. This book deals with the ideas and institutions that underpinned this mission and shows how Nazi policy affected various groups of people, both victims and beneficiaries. The book begins with a serious discussion of the origins of Nazi racial ideology, and then demonstrates the way in which this was translated into official policy. It deals with the systematic persecution not only of the Jews, but also with the fate of lesser-known groups such as Sinti and Roma, the mentally handicapped, the "asocial," and homosexuals.

Subjects

Subject

Minorities > Germany > History > 20th century.

Germany > History > 1933-1945.

Germany > Race relations.

Germany > Social policy.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Michael Burleigh, Wolfgang Wippermann.

Content

Introduction: why another book on the Third Reich? -- Pt. I. The setting. 1. How modern, German, and totalitarian was the Third Reich? Some major historiographical controversies -- 2. Barbarous utopias: racial ideologies in Germany -- 3. Barbarism institutionalised: racism as state policy -- Pt. II. The "purification" of the body of the nation. 4. The persecution of the Jews -- 5. The persecution of Sinti and Roma, and other ethnic minorities -- 6. The persecution of the "hereditarily ill", the "asocial", and homosexuals -- Pt. III. The formation of the 'national community". 7. Youth in the Third Reich -- 8. Women in the "Third Reich" -- 9. Men in the Third Reich. -- Conclusion: National socialist racial and social policy.

Library Special Collection

The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection

ISBN

0521391148

0521398029

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	323.1/43/09043 BUR		General Stacks	-

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