Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany
Review "This volume will be essential reading for scholars and students of Nazi Germany for many years to come."---Matthew Stibbe, German History When Hitler assumed power in 1933, he and other Nazis had firm ideas on what they called a racially pure "community of the people." They quickly took steps against those whom they wanted to isolate, deport, or destroy. In these essays informed by the latest research, leading scholars offer rich histories of the people branded as...
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"This is one of the first major collections in English devoted solely to the crucial question of how certain groups were officially defined and treated as 'outsiders' in German society under the Nazis. The book takes a laudably wide and imaginative view of its subject, looking beyond the more familiar categories of racial exclusion and complicating the vision of a strictly organized Nazi social order. . . . The authors bring both depth and range to their essays, and the collection as a whole not only offers a series of focussed case studies but also surveys the state of international research in the field."--Jane Caplan, Bryn Mawr College"Gellately and Stoltzfus have put together a most useful collection of essays. It serves as a timely introduction into a dispersed field of research, and it should generate an interest in further debating the history of outsiders and the nature of social panic in the twentieth century."--Michael Geyer, University of Chicago Matthew Stibbe - German History This volume will be essential reading for scholars and students of Nazi Germany for many years to come.
Ch. 1Social Outsiders and the Construction of the Community of the People3Ch. 2Social Outsiders in German History: From the Sixteenth Century to 193320Ch. 3No "Volksgenossen": Jewish Entrepreneurs in the Third Reich45Ch. 4When the Ordinary Became Extraordinary: German Jews Reacting to Nazi Persecution, 1933-193966Ch. 5The Nazi Purge of German Artistic and Cultural Life99Ch. 6The Limits of Policy: Social Protection of Intermarried German Jews in Nazi Germany117Ch. 7The Exclusion and Murder of the Disabled145Ch. 8From Indefinite Confinement to Extermination: "Habitual Criminals" in the Third Reich165Ch. 9The Ambivalent Outsider: Prostitution, Promiscuity, and VD Control in Nazi Berlin192Ch. 10"Gypsies" as Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany212Ch. 11The Institutionalization of Homosexual Panic in the Third Reich233Ch. 12Police Justice, Popular Justice, and Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany: The Example of Polish Foreign Workers256Ch. 13Sex, Blood, and Vulnerability: Women Outsiders in German-Occupied Europe273Ch. 14Social Outcasts in War and Genocide: A Comparative Perspective294List of Contributors319Index321
\ German HistoryThis volume will be essential reading for scholars and students of Nazi Germany for many years to come.\ — Matthew Stibbe\ \ \ \ \ German History - Matthew Stibbe\ This volume will be essential reading for scholars and students of Nazi Germany for many years to come.\ \
