A Nazi past : recasting German identity in postwar Europe

A Nazi past : recasting German identity in postwar Europe /

Since the end of World War II, historians and psychologists have investigated the factors that motivated Germans to become Nazis before and during the war. While most studies have focused on the high-level figures who were tried at Nuremberg, much less is known about the hundreds of SS members, part...

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Other Authors: Messenger, David A. (Editor), Paehler, Katrin (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, [2015]
Subjects:
Nazis > Germany (West) > Biography.
Denazification > Germany (West)
Ex-Nazis > Germany (West) > Psychology.
Denial (Psychology) > Case studies.
War criminals > Germany (West) > Biography.
National socialism > Moral and ethical aspects.
Group identity > Germany (West)
Denazification.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
Denazification
Denial (Psychology)
Group identity
National socialism > Moral and ethical aspects
Nazis
War criminals
Germany (West)
Biography
Biographies
Case studies
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Recast Identities in War Crimes Trials and Interrogations
  • Hans Globke at Nuremberg: Testimony as Rehabilitation, 1948-1949 / Daniel E. Rogers
  • Auditioning for Postwar: Walter Schellenberg, the Allies, and Attempts to Fashion a Usable Past / Katrin Paehler
  • "Bad Nazis and Other Germans": The Fate of SS-Einsatzgruppen Commander Martin Sandberger in Postwar Germany / Hilary Earl
  • pt. 2. Network of Recasting
  • Petitions to Franco: Arguements and Identities of Ex-Nazis in the Effort to Avoid Repariation from Spain, 1945-1950 / David A. Messenger
  • Siegfried Zoglmann, His Circle of Writers, and the Naumann Affair: A Nazi Propaganda Operation in Postwar Germany / Susanna Schrafstetter
  • German Diplomats and the Myth of the Two Foreign Offices / Thomas W. Maulucci
  • Hitler's Military Elite in Italy and the Question of "Decent War" / Kerstin Von Lingem
  • pt. 3. Unique Recastings in Postwar Germany
  • "I Am the Man Who Started the War": Alfred Naujocks and His Postwar Stories about His 'Adventures" / Florian Altenhöner
  • "Man with a Wide Horizon": The Postwar Professional Journey of SS Officer Karl Nicolussi-Leck / Gerald Steinacher
  • Revision of Life Story/Revision of History: Gertrud Slottke, from National Socialist Coperpetrator to Expellee Official / Elisabeth Kohlhass
  • The Gehlen Organization and the Heinz Felfe Case: The SD, the KGB, and West German Counterintelligence / Norman j. W. Goda.

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