The Fourth Reich

The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Ever since the collapse of the Third Reich, anxieties have persisted about Nazism's revival in the form of a Fourth Reich. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld reveals, for the first time, these postwar nightmares of a future that never happened and explains what they tell us about Western political, intellectual, and cultural life. He shows how postwar German history might have been very different without the fear of the Fourth Reich as a mobilizing idea to combat the right-wing forces that genuinely threatened the country's democratic order. He then explores the universalization of the Fourth Reich by left-wing radicals in the 1960s, its transformation into a source of pop culture entertainment in the 1970s, and its embrace by authoritarian populists and neo-Nazis seeking to attack the European Union since the year 2000. This is a timely analysis of a concept that is increasingly relevant in an era of surging right-wing politics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-03-14
Mått:158 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt:720 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:408
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108497497

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Gavriel D. Rosenfeld is Professor of History at Fairfield University. He has published widely on the Third Reich, the Holocaust, and the Second World War, including Hi Hitler! How the Nazi Past is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture, which won the Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize for the best book dealing with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.

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'Gavriel D. Rosenfeld's new book is a brilliant and very timely exploration of something that never happened. It examines how it is that people after WWII imagined the possibility of a Fourth Reich, in whatever form or shape. As the history of a political concept that spoke to the preoccupations of postwar transatlantic societies, it is a very distinctive addition to our understanding of the stability of democracy in postwar Germany and the postwar West more broadly.' Richard Steigmann-Gall, author of The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Between fantasy and nightmare: inventing the Fourth Reich in the Third Reich; 2. From werewolves to democrats: the Fourth Reich under Allied occupation; 3. The Fourth Reich turns right: renazifying Germany in the 1950s; 4. From Germany to the United States: universalizing the Fourth Reich in the turbulent 1960s; 5. Hitler in Argentina: fictionalizing the Fourth Reich in the long 1970s; 6. Re-Germanizing the Fourth Reich: from reunification to the Reich Citizens' Movement; Conclusion.

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