The Nazi Conscience
by Claudia Koonz
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"The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic community and denounced outsiders." "Claudia Koonz's latest work reveals how racial popularizers developed the infrastructure and rationale for genocide during the so-called normal years before World War II. Her careful reading of the voluminous Nazi writings on race traces the transformation of longtime Nazis' vulgar antisemitism into a racial ideology that seemed credible to the vast majority of ordinary Germans who never joined the Nazi Party. Challenging conventional assumptions about Hitler, Koonz locates the source of his charisma not in his summons to hate but in his appeal to the collective virtue of his people, the Volk."--Jacket.
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Historiography, Political culture, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), National socialism, Psychological aspects, Germany, historiography, Social Psychology, Euthanasia, History, Disabled Persons, Nazisme, Aspect psychologique, Mythes politiques, Holocauste, 1939-1945, Historiographie, 15.70 history of Europe, Ideologie, Massenkultur, Nationalsozialismus, Politisches Bewusstsein, Rassismus, Wertorientierung, Nationaal-socialisme, Rassendiscriminatie, Ethiek, Publieke opinie, Germans, Attitudes, Politics and government, Ethnicity, National socialism and racism, Racism, BMBF-Statusseminar gnd| Edition | Availability |
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The Nazi Conscience
November 30, 2005, Belknap Press
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in English
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0674018427 9780674018426
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The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic community and denounced outsiders. Claudia Koonz's latest work reveals how racial popularizers developed the infrastructure and rationale for genocide during the so-called normal years before World War II. Her careful reading of the voluminous Nazi writings on race traces the transformation of longtime Nazis' vulgar antisemitism into a racial ideology that seemed credible to the vast majority of ordinary Germans who never joined the Nazi Party. Challenging conventional assumptions about Hitler, Koonz locates the source of his charisma not in his summons to hate but in his appeal to the collective virtue of his people, the Volk. - Jacket flap.
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