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Germany and the Second World War - Volume IX/I: German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the Struggle for Survival (Hardcover, New)
Ralf Blank, Joerg Echternkamp, Karola Fings, Jurgen Foerster, Winfried Heinemann, …
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The Second World War affected the lives and shaped the experience
of millions of individuals in Germany--soldiers at the front,
women, children and the elderly sheltering in cellars, slave
laborers toiling in factories, and concentration-camp prisoners and
POWs clearing rubble in the Reich's devastated cities.
Taking a "history from below" approach, the volume examines how
the minds and behaviour of individuals were moulded by the Party as
the Reich took the road to Total War. The ever-increasing numbers
of German workers conscripted into the Wehrmacht were replaced with
forced foreign workers and slave labourers and concentration camp
prisoners. The interaction in everyday life between German civilian
society and these coerced groups is explored, as is that society's
relationship to the Holocaust.
From early 1943, the war on the home front was increasingly
dominated by attack from the air. The role of the Party,
administration, police, and courts in providing for the vast
numbers of those rendered homeless, in bolstering civilian morale
with "miracle revenge weapons" propaganda, and in maintaining order
in a society in disintegration is reviewed in detail.
For society in uniform, the war in the east was one of ideology
and annihilation, with intensified indoctrination of the troops
after Stalingrad. The social profile of this army is analysed
through study of a typical infantry division. The volume concludes
with an account of the various forms of resistance to Hitler's
regime, in society and the military, culminating in the failed
attempt on his life in July 1944.
The Second World War affected the lives and shaped the experience
of millions of individuals in Germany - soldiers at the front,
women, children and the elderly sheltering in cellars, slave
labourers toiling in factories, and concentration-camp prisoners
and POWs clearing rubble in the Reich's devastated cities. Taking a
'history from below' approach, the volume examines how the minds
and behaviour of individuals were moulded by the Party as the Reich
took the road to Total War. The ever-increasing numbers of German
workers conscripted into the Wehrmacht were replaced with forced
foreign workers and slave labourers and concentration camp
prisoners. The interaction in everyday life between German civilian
society and these coerced groups is explored, as is that society's
relationship to the Holocaust. From early 1943, the war on the home
front was increasingly dominated by attack from the air. The role
of the Party, administration, police, and courts in providing for
the vast numbers of those rendered homeless, in bolstering civilian
morale with 'miracle revenge weapons' propaganda, and in
maintaining order in a society in disintegration is reviewed in
detail. For society in uniform, the war in the east was one of
ideology and annihilation, with intensified indoctrination of the
troops after Stalingrad. The social profile of this army is
analysed through study of a typical infantry division. The volume
concludes with an account of the various forms of resistance to
Hitler's regime, in society and the military, culminating in the
failed attempt on his life in July 1944.
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