Nazi Germany's New Aristocracy (eBook)

The SS Leadership,1925-1939

Herbert F. Ziegler (Autor)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6036-4 (ISBN)

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The first book-length presentation on the social origins of the prewar SS leadership, this volume offers a complete picture of the men who, between 1925 and 1939, joined the vanguard of National Socialism and rose to the rank of SS-Führer. Herbert Ziegler reveals that the Black Order was composed of people from all walks of life. Young Gymnasium and university graduates rubbed elbows with former gardeners, mechanics, and office clerks, while "old fighters" of the pre-1933 Nazi movement climbed the ladder of SS ranks alongside those who did not find their enthusiasm for Hitler's new order until after the Nazi seizure of power. Within the confines of Heinrich Himmler's new knighthood was created a people's community in microcosm, furnishing many a recruit a vehicle for upward social mobility. Moving beyond earlier explanations of who provided the support for National Socialism, Ziegler describes practices within the SS that were akin to a democracy of personnel selection and that resulted, by 1939, in a leadership corps characterized by social heterogeneity rather than homogeneity. Taking advantage of the detailed information contained in the thousands of SS personnel files located at the Berlin Document Center, and using the tools of statistical analysis, he also probes the connections between social reality and the ideological credos and promises of the Third Reich.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Abitur • Adolf Hitler • Adolf Hitler Schools • Adolf Hitler's rise to power • Allgemeine SS • American middle class • aristocracy • Bernd Wegner • Black Order (Satanist group) • Blutfahne • Communist Party of Germany • Das Dritte Reich • East Prussia • Elite Theory • Ernst Nolte • Eugenics • extermination camp • Flag of Germany • Free German Youth • Freikorps • Gauleiter • Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft • Gerald Reitlinger • German Christians • Germanisation • German Reich • Germans • Gleichschaltung • Greater Germanic Reich • Hans Mommsen • Hans-Ulrich Wehler • Heinrich Himmler • industrialisation • Julius Schreck • Karl Dietrich Bracher • Karl Mannheim • Kirchenkampf • Kith (Poul Anderson) • Koblenz • Konrad Heiden • Kulturkampf • labor aristocracy • Lebensborn • Lebensraum • Lumpenproletariat • Martin Bormann • Martin Broszat • Mein Kampf • middle class • mit brennender sorge • Mittelstand • Modernity • Modernization Theory • Modern Paganism • Mommsen • National Socialist Movement (UK, 1962) • National Socialist Movement (United States) • Nazi concentration camps • Nazi Germany • Nazi Party • Nazi Propaganda • Nazi seizure of power • Nazism • Nuremberg Trials • of education • Politique • power politics • proletarianization • Protestantism • Radicalism (historical) • Radicalization • Radical right (United States) • Reichswehr • Reinhard Heydrich • Schutzstaffel • Sepp Dietrich • Sicherheitsdienst • Sicherheitspolizei • Social Darwinism • socialist state • social liberalism • social revolution • Sonderweg • Stahlhelm • The German War • Theodor Geiger • Totalitarianism • upper middle class • Volksgemeinschaft • Volkstum • Volunteer Force (Great Britain) • Waffen-SS • War Crime • Wehrmacht • Weimar Republic • Wilhelm Frick • World War I • World War II • Young Germany • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6036-9 / 1400860369
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6036-4 / 9781400860364