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When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, it aimed to destroy
Polish national consciousness. As a symbol of Polish national
identity and the religious faith of approximately two-thirds of
Poland's population, the Roman Catholic Church was an obvious
target of the Nazi regime's policies of ethnic, racial, and
cultural Germanization. Jonathan Huener reveals in The Polish
Catholic Church under German Occupation that the persecution of the
church was most severe in the Reichsgau Wartheland, a region of
Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. Here Catholics witnessed the
execution of priests, the incarceration of hundreds of clergymen
and nuns in prisons and concentration camps, the closure of
churches, the destruction and confiscation of church property, and
countless restrictions on public expression of the Catholic faith.
Huener also illustrates how some among the Nazi elite viewed this
area as a testing ground for anti-church policies to be launched in
the Reich after the successful completion of the war. Based on
largely untapped sources from state and church archives, punctuated
by vivid archival photographs, and marked by nuance and balance,
The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation exposes both the
brutalities and the limitations of Nazi church policy. The first
English-language investigation of German policy toward the Catholic
Church in occupied Poland, this compelling story also offers
insight into the varied ways in which Catholics—from Pope Pius
XII, to members of the Polish episcopate, to the Polish laity at
the parish level—responded to the Nazi regime's repressive
measures.
When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, it aimed to destroy
Polish national consciousness. As a symbol of Polish national
identity and the religious faith of approximately two-thirds of
Poland's population, the Roman Catholic Church was an obvious
target of the Nazi regime's policies of ethnic, racial, and
cultural Germanization. Jonathan Huener reveals in The Polish
Catholic Church under German Occupation that the persecution of the
church was most severe in the Reichsgau Wartheland, a region of
Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. Here Catholics witnessed the
execution of priests, the incarceration of hundreds of clergymen
and nuns in prisons and concentration camps, the closure of
churches, the destruction and confiscation of church property, and
countless restrictions on public expression of the Catholic faith.
Huener also illustrates how some among the Nazi elite viewed this
area as a testing ground for anti-church policies to be launched in
the Reich after the successful completion of the war. Based on
largely untapped sources from state and church archives, punctuated
by vivid archival photographs, and marked by nuance and balance,
The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation exposes both the
brutalities and the limitations of Nazi church policy. The first
English-language investigation of German policy toward the Catholic
Church in occupied Poland, this compelling story also offers
insight into the varied ways in which Catholics—from Pope Pius
XII, to members of the Polish episcopate, to the Polish laity at
the parish level—responded to the Nazi regime's repressive
measures.
Culture and the arts played a central role in the ideology and
propaganda of National Socialism from the early years of the
movement until the last months of the Third Reich in 1945. Hitler
and his followers believed that art and culture were expressions of
race, and that "Aryans" alone were capable of creating true art and
preserving true German culture. This volume's essays explore these
and other aspects of the arts and cultural life under National
Socialism, and are authored by some of the most respected
authorities in the field: Alan Steinweis, Michael Kater, Eric
Rentschler, Pamela Potter, Frank Trommler, and Jonathan
Petropoulos. The result is a volume that offers students and
interested readers a brief but focused introduction to this
important aspect of the history of Nazi Germany.
During the past decade, the role of Germany's economic elites under
Hitler has once again moved into the limelight of historical
research and public debate. This volume brings together a group of
internationally renowned scholars who have been at the forefront of
recent research. Their articles provide an up-to-date synthesis,
which is as comprehensive as it is insightful, of current knowledge
in this field. The result is a volume that offers students and
interested readers a brief but focused introduction to the role of
German businesses and industries in the crimes of Hitler's Third
Reich. Not only does this book treat the subject in an accessible
manner; it also emerges as particularly relevant in light of
current controversies over the nature of business-state relations,
corporate social responsibility, and globalization.
"Brief and synthetic as the essays are, they will . . . be of most
use to students or to those new to the field. However, they provide
engaging reading for those with more in-depth knowledge too." .
Journal of Modern History "Educators and students owe a debt of
gratitude . . . all of the articles in this anthology are readily
accessible to the non-specialist without compromising the
cutting-edge scholarship that informs them." . ISIS "This in an
engrossing book . . . morally challenging to all physicians." .
Journal of the American Medical Association ." . . extraordinarily
valuable essays combine perspectives from history, sociology,
demography, and anthropology." . Choice ." . . excellent
orientation for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as
physicians and the general public . . . All in all, this is a
stimulating set of essays that deserves a wide readership." .
H-German The participation of German physicians in medical
experiments on innocent people and mass murder is one of the most
disturbing aspects of the Nazi era and the Holocaust. Six
distinguished historians working in this field are addressing the
critical issues raised by these murderous experiments, such as the
place of the Holocaust in the larger context of eugenic and racial
research, the motivation and roles of the German medical
establishment, and the impact and legacy of the eugenics movements
and Nazi medical practice on physicians and medicine since World
War II. Francis R. Nicosia is professor of History at Saint
Michael's College in Vermont where he teaches courses on modern
German and European history and the Holocaust. Jonathan Huener is
assistant professor of History at the University of Vermont where
he teaches courses on the Holocaust, German history, and Polish
history."
The participation of German physicians in medical experiments on
innocent people and mass murder is one of the most disturbing
aspects of the Nazi era and the Holocaust. Six distinguished
historians working in this field are addressing the critical issues
raised by these murderous experiments, such as the place of the
Holocaust in the larger context of eugenic and racial research, the
motivation and roles of the German medical establishment, and the
impact and legacy of the eugenics movements and Nazi medical
practice on physicians and medicine since World War II. Based on
the authors' original scholarship, these essays offer an excellent
and very accessible introduction to an important and controversial
subject. They are also particularly relevant in light of current
controversies over the nature and application of research in human
genetics and biotechnology.
As a unique and innovative addition to the scholarship on Nazi
Germany, the Holocaust, and modern Polish history, this volume
provides fresh analysis on the Nazi occupation of Poland. Through
new questions and engaging untapped sources the leading historians
who have contributed to this volume provide original scholarship to
steer debates and expand the historiography surrounding Nazi racial
and occupation policies, Polish and Jewish responses to them,
persecution, police terror, resistance, and complicity.
"This slim volume accomplishes a remarkable feat. It provides
concise, beautifully crafted essays that provide access to the best
scholarship in Nazi cultural history even as they represent the
current state of research by leading experts... Supplemented with
illustrations and primary sources, this work would make an ideal
addition to undergraduate and graduate courses on the Third Reich,
sure to provoke lively discussion and further study on the arts in
Nazi Germany." . German Studies Review "Huener and Nicosia's
collection provides exceptional insight not only into the murky
world of National Socialist cultural practices, but also into some
uncomfortable areas which survived beyond 1945." . European History
Quarterly Culture and the arts played a central role in the
ideology and propaganda of National Socialism from the early years
of the movement until the last months of the Third Reich in 1945.
Hitler and his followers believed that art and culture were
expressions of race, and that "Aryans" alone were capable of
creating true art and preserving true German culture. This volume's
essays explore these and other aspects of the arts and cultural
life under National Socialism, and are authored by some of the most
respected authorities in the field: Alan Steinweis, Michael Kater,
Eric Rentschler, Pamela Potter, Frank Trommler, and Jonathan
Petropoulos. The result is a volume that offers students and
interested readers a brief but focused introduction to this
important aspect of the history of Nazi Germany. Jonathan Huener is
Associate Professor of History at the University of Vermont. He has
written on aspects of memorial culture in postwar Germany and
Poland, is author of Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of
Commemoration, 1945-1979, and co-editor, with Francis R. Nicosia,
of Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany: Origins, Practices,
Legacies and Business and Industry in Nazi Germany. Francis R.
Nicosia is the Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust
Studies at the University of Vermont. He has written on German
Zionism and German Middle East policy during the Weimar and Nazi
periods. He is author of The Third Reich and the Palestine
Question, and co-author of The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust.
During the past decade, the role of Germany's economic elites under
Hitler has once again moved into the limelight of historical
research and public debate. This volume brings together a group of
internationally known historians who have been at the forefront of
recent research and whose articles provide an up-to-date synthesis
of current knowledge in this field which is as comprehensive as it
is insightful. The result is a volume that offers students and
interested readers a brief but focused introduction to the role of
German businesses and industries in the crimes of Hitler's Third
Reich. Not only does this book treat the subject in an accessible
manner, it also emerges as particularly relevant in light of
current controversies over the nature of business-state relations,
corporate social responsibility, and some of the negative aspects
of globalization in the world today.
Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as
Auschwitz. Recognized and remembered as the most prominent site of
Nazi crimes, Auschwitz has had tremendous symbolic weight in the
postwar world. Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration
is a history of the Auschwitz memorial site in the years of the
Polish People's Republic. Since 1945, Auschwitz has functioned as a
memorial and museum. Its monuments, exhibitions, and public spaces
have attracted politicians, pilgrims, and countless participants in
public demonstrations and commemorative events. Jonathan Huener's
study begins with the liberation of the camp and traces the history
of the State Museum at Auschwitz from its origins immediately after
the war until the 1980s, analyzing the landscape, exhibitions, and
public events at the site. Based on extensive research and
illustrated with archival photographs, Auschwitz, Poland, and the
Politics of Commemoration accounts for the development and
durability of a Polish commemorative idiom at Auschwitz. Emphasis
on Polish national "martyrdom" at Auschwitz, neglect of the Shoah
as the most prominent element of the camp's history, political
instrumentalization of the grounds and exhibitions-these were some
of the more controversial aspects of the camp's postwar landscape.
Professor Huener locates these and other public manifestations of
memory at Auschwitz in the broad scope of Polish history, in the
specific context of postwar Polish politics and culture, and
against the background of Polish-Jewish relations. Auschwitz,
Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration will be of interest to
scholars, students, and general readers of the history of modern
Poland and the Holocaust.
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