Offering a dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the key issues at the heart of the study of German Fascism, Nazism as Fascism brings together a selection of Geoff Eley’s most important writings on Nazism and the Third Reich. Featuring a wealth of revised, updated and new material, Nazism as Fascism analyses the historiography of the Third Reich and its main interpretive approaches. Themes include: Detailed reflection on the tenets and character of Nazi ideology and institutional practices Examination of the complicated processes that made Germans willing to think of themselves as Nazis Discussion of Nazism’s presence in the everyday lives of the German People Consideration of the place of women under the Third Reich In addition, this book also looks at the larger questions of the historical legacy of Fascist ideology and charts its influence and development from its origin in 1930’s Germany through to its intellectual and spatial influence on a modern society in crisis. In Nazism as Fascism Geoff Eley engages with Germany’s political past in order to evaluate the politics of the present day and to understand what happens when the basic principles of democracy and community are violated. This book is essential reading not only for students of German history, but for anyone with an interest in history and politics more generally.
Author(s): Geoff Eley
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 257
Tags: Fascism: Germany: Historiography, National Socialism: Historiography, Germany: History: 1933-1945
Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 7
1. Origins, Post-Conservatism, and 1933: Nazism as a Brea......Page 12
Changing approaches to the history of Nazism......Page 24
Hitler’s place in the Third Reich......Page 33
The need for a new general history......Page 39
Judging the “Nazi consensus”......Page 47
Nazi rule on the ground: Coercing consent......Page 55
From society to culture: Reviewing the Volksgemeinschaft......Page 70
Efficacy and everyday life: How did Nazism make its appeal?......Page 74
Building the Volksgemeinschaft: Ideology on the ground......Page 77
Racial uplift in the drive for war: The Lebensraum of consumpt......Page 81
Nazi ideology at the core......Page 86
Putting women into the history of Na......Page 102
Women’s agency and the gendering of political capacities......Page 105
Women, work and welfare......Page 111
Social policy, the family, and the rationalizing of private life......Page 119
Women activists and the making of Nazi subjects......Page 128
Space, Nazism, and historiography......Page 142
Respatializing German history: The nation as an empire......Page 144
Wilhelmine radical nationalism: Three legacies......Page 147
Historiography and the return of ideology......Page 151
Space, place, and the imaginary......Page 157
Histories sacred and profane......Page 167
Bringing the Holocaust back home......Page 169
“Working towards the Führer”......Page 176
Widening the contex......Page 178
Integrated histories......Page 183
Exemplary lives......Page 187
Conclusion......Page 195
Times of emergency......Page 209
The 1960s and 1970s: Sociologies of political backwardness......Page 211
German particularities: Modernity at the limit......Page 215
Germany’s fascism: Four theses......Page 218
Fascism then …......Page 220
1 Fascism was a modernism......Page 221
2 Germany was not Italy......Page 222
3 Fascism entailed an intensifying of modernist governmentality......Page 223
5 Fascism was an imperialism......Page 224
… and now......Page 225
Notes......Page 229
Index......Page 237
