Format:
1 Online-Ressource (276 pages)
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illustrations, 1 map
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
081314888X
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0813117941
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9780813148885
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9780813117942
Content:
Many scholars have tried to assess Adolf Hitler's influence on the German people, usually focusing on university towns and industrial communities, most of them predominantly Protestant or religiously mixed. This new work by Walter Rinderle and Bernard Norling, however, deals with the impact of the Nazis on Oberschopfheim, a small, rural, overwhelmingly Catholic village in Baden-Wuerttemberg in southwestern Germany. This incisively written book raises fundamental questions about the nature of the Third Reich. The authors portray the Nazi regime as considerably less "totalitarian" than is commonly assumed, hardly an exemplar of the efficiency for which Germany is known, and neither revered nor condemned by most of its inhabitants. The authors suggest that Oberschopfheim merely accepted Nazi rule with the same resignation with which so many ordinary people have regarded their governments throughout history. Depicting the Nazi era as but one episode in the historical experience of Baden's farmers, Rinderle and Norling contend that various nonpolitical developments, especially since 1960, have shaped the character of contemporary Germany more powerfully than remnants of the Nazi era. Based on village and county records and on the direct testimony of Oberschopfheimers, this book will interest anyone concerned with contemporary Germany as a growing economic power and will appeal to the descendants of German immigrants to the United States because of its depiction of several generations of life in a German village
Content:
1. The Legacy of Centuries -- 2. The People of Oberschopfheim -- 3. Management of the Village -- 4. World War I and Its Aftermath -- 5. The Great Depression -- 6. The Rise of the Nazis -- 7. The Nazi Era in Peacetime -- 8. Offering the Nazi Carrot -- 9. The Strength of Tradition -- 10. World War II and Its Aftermath -- 11. The Breakdown of the Old Order -- 12. A New Age Emerges
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-272) and index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 0813117941
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813117942
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rinderle, Walter, 1940- Nazi impact on a German village Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1993
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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