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The Nazi Conscience (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Nazi Conscience (Paperback, New Ed)
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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 anti-Semitism 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. From 1933 to 1939, Nazi
public culture was saturated with a blend of racial fear and ethnic
pride that Koonz calls ethnic fundamentalism. Ordinary Germans were
prepared for wartime atrocities by racial concepts widely
disseminated in media not perceived as political: academic
research, documentary films, mass-market magazines, racial hygiene
and art exhibits, slide lectures, textbooks, and humor. By showing
how Germans learned to countenance the everyday persecution of
fellow citizens labeled as alien, Koonz makes a major contribution
to our understanding of the Holocaust. The Nazi Conscience
chronicles the chilling saga of a modern state so powerful that it
extinguished neighborliness, respect, and, ultimately, compassion
for all those banished from the ethnic majority.
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