This book is the first systematic study of the relations between German high society and the Nazis. It uses unpublished archival material, private diaries and diplomatic documents to take us into the hidden areas of power where privileges, tax breaks, and stolen property were exchanged. Fabrice D'Almeida begins by examining high society in the Weimar period, dominated by the old imperial… Mehr zeigen aristocracy and a new republican aristocracy of government officials and wealthy businessmen. It was in this group that Hitler made his social debut in the early 1920s through the mediation of conservative friends and artists, including the family of the composer Richard Wagner. By the end of the 1920s, he enjoyed wide support among socialites, who played a significant role in his access to power in 1933. Their adherence to the Nazi regime, and the favors they received in return, continued and even grew until defeat loomed on the horizon. D'Almeida shows how members of German high society sought to outdo each other in showing zealous support for Hitler, how the old elitesstarting with the Kaiser's sonspartied alongside parvenus, and how actors, aristocrats, SS technocrats, and diplomats came together to form a strange imperial court. Women also played a role in this theater of power; they were persuaded that they had gained in dignity what they had lost in civil rights. There emerges a fascinating and disturbing picture of a group that allowed nothingnot war, the plundering of Europe, nor the extermination of peoplesto alter their cynical enjoyment of pleasures: hunting, regattas, the opera, balls, dinners, tennis More than a study of a class or a chronicle, this book lifts the veil that has concealed a society that used secrecy to protect itself. Hitler's High Society makes an important and unique contribution to the current reevaluation of the extent to which German society, including German high society, was responsible for Hitler's accession to power and the crimes that were committed by his regime. Weniger zeigen

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Erscheinungsdatum

14.11.2008

Sprache

Englisch

EAN

9780745643120

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John Wiley & Sons

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Autor

Fabrice D'Almeida

Seitenanzahl

350

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Broschiert

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Trade Paperback (US)

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Fabrice D'Almeida is Lecturer in History at the University of Paris X-Nanterre.

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