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1 online resource (369 pages)
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9780195364507
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How could educated professionals have supported the Nazi movement and collaborated with Hitler's inhuman policies? Jarausch examines this fascinating and largely unexplored subject, tracing the social, ideological, and political development of three representative German professions--law, teaching, and engineering--from the late Empire to the early Federal Republic. Based on a reformulated professionalization theory and on authoritative statistics, he describes professional prosperity and prestige in the Second Reich and analyzes the social crisis brought on by hyperinflation, stabilization, and Depression during the chaotic Weimar years. Threatened with the loss of livelihood and frightened by cultural disorientation, many experts embraced neo-conservative ideas and cooperated in Hitler's seizure of power. Welcoming the apparent restoration of their authority in the early Third Reich, professionals collaborated in the racial purges and warping of ethics, practices, and organizations under Nazi rule. During the Second World War, the radicalization of SS terror threatened the very survival of the professions so that most practitioners were only too happy to be rescued by Allied victory. Exploring the reluctant democratization of the post-war professions, Jarausch concludes with a reflection on the lessons of the German experience for the relationship between professionalism and liberty.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Tables -- 1. Professionalization German Style -- The German Concept of Profession -- Professions in Imperial Germany -- Neocorporate Professionalism -- I: PROFESSIONS IN CRISIS -- 2. Democratizing the Professions -- The Challenge of Reform -- Structural and Ideological Constraints -- Interest Group Professionalism -- 3. Regaining Professional Stability -- The Price of Normalcy -- Professions and Politics -- Toward Republican Professionalism -- 4. The Breakdown of Liberal Professionalism -- The Impact of the Great Depression -- The Rise of Nazi Alternatives -- Collapse of Interest Republicanism -- II: PROFESSIONALS AS ACCOMPLICES -- 5. The Illusion of Reprofessionalization -- Compulsion or Self-Coordination? -- Restoring Professional Authority -- From Nationalist to Nazi Professionalism -- 6. "Germanizing" the Professions -- Nazification of Personnel and Practice -- The Spoils of Collaboration -- Abnormal Nazi Normality -- 7. Deprofessionalization in the Third Reich -- Professions at War -- The Warping of Professionalism -- Professionalism Instrumentalized -- 8. Perils of Professionalism -- Rebuilding the Professions -- The Travails of German Practitioners -- Professionals and Liberty -- Appendix A. Statistical Tables -- Appendix B. A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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ISBN 9780195044829
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780195044829
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Print version The Unfree Professions German Lawyers, Teachers, and Engineers, 1900-1950
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Englisch
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