Umfang:
Online-Ressource (x, 261 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0814775241
Inhalt:
After World War I, German citizens sought not merely relief from the political, economic, social, and cultural upheaval which wracked Weimar Germany, but also mental salvation. With promises of order, prosperity, and community, Adolph Hitler fulfilled a profoundly spiritual need on behalf of those who converted to Nazism, and thus became not only Führer, but Messiah contends David Redles, who believes that millenarian sentiment was central to the rise of Nazism. As opposed to many works which depersonalize Nazism by focusing on institutional factors, Redles offers a fresh view of the impact an
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Nazism, Mtyh, and Meaning; 1 A World Turned Upside Down: Weimar Chaos andthe Culture of Apocalypse; 2 The Turning Point: Racial Apocalypse or Racial Salvation; 3 Seeing the Light: The Nazi Conversion Experienc; 4 Hitler as Messiah; 5 The Messiah Legitimated: Linking the Leader and the Led; Final Empire, Final War, Final Solution; Appendix: The Hitler Gospels andOld Guard Testimonials:Reconstructing a Mythical World ; Notes; Index; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780814775240
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hitler's Millennial Reich : Apocalyptic Belief and the Search for Salvation
Sprache:
Englisch
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