Nazism, Fascism and the Working ClassThis collection of essays, four of which are published in English for the first time, represents the life's work of the historian Tim Mason, one of the most original and perceptive scholars of National Socialism, who pioneered its social and labour history. His provocative articles and essays, written 1964 and 1990, exhibit a combination of empirical rigour and theoretical astuteness which made them landmarks in the definition and elaboration of major debates in the historiography of National Socialism. |
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Contents
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Intention and explanation A current controversy about the interpretation of National Socialism | 212 |
The containment of the working class in Nazi Germany | 231 |
The Turin strikes of March 1943 | 274 |
The domestic dynamics of Nazi conquests A response to critics | 295 |
Whatever happened to fascism? | 323 |
Bibliography of publications | 332 |
Bibliography of works cited | 336 |
Index | 352 |
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Page 35 - If, territorially speaking, there existed no political result corresponding to this German racial core, that was a consequence of centuries of historical development, and in the continuance of these political conditions lay the greatest danger to the preservation of the German race at its present peak. To arrest the decline of Germanism [Deutschtum] in Austria and Czechoslovakia was as little possible as to maintain the present level in Germany itself. Instead of increase, sterility was setting in,...
Page 51 - solution' open to this regime of the structural tensions and crises produced by dictatorship and rearmament was more dictatorship and more rearmament, then expansion, then war and terror, then plunder and enslavement. The stark, everpresent alternative was collapse and chaos, and so all solutions were temporary, hectic, hand-to-mouth affairs, increasingly barbaric improvisations around a brutal theme. Mr Taylor is perhaps nearer to the truth than he knows in writing that, '. . . at best the argument...
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Page 35 - If there existed no political result, territorially speaking, corresponding to this German racial core, that was a consequence of centuries of historical development, and in the continuance of these political conditions lay the greatest danger to the preservation of the German race at its present peak. To arrest the decline of Germanism in Austria and Czechoslovakia was as little possible as to maintain the present level in Germany itself.
Page 35 - The historian must try to push through the cloud of phrases to the realities beneath', and these realities were the attempts of Great Powers 'to maintain their interests and independence'.8 This view leads to an overwhelming concentration on the sequence of diplomatic events, and a failure to see German foreign policy in the general context of National Socialist politics. The foreign policy of the Third Reich was dynamic in character, limitless in its aims to achieve domination and entirely lacking...
Page 131 - If we say the world of the man is the state, the world of the man is his commitment, his struggle on behalf of the community, we could then perhaps say that the world of the woman is a smaller world. For her world is her husband, her family, her children and her home.
Page 42 - Far from wanting war, a general war was the last thing he [Hitler] wanted . . . This is not guesswork. It is demonstrated beyond peradventure by the record of German armament before the Second World War or even during...
Page 15 - Fascism in power is an overt terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic, and most imperialist elements of finance capital.
Page 31 - Claudia Koonz, Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987...
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| Title | Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class |
| Authors | Tim Mason, Timothy W. Mason |
| Editors | Jane Caplan, Associate Professor of History Jane Caplan |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0521437873, 9780521437875 |
| Length | 361 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / General History / Modern / 20th Century Social Science / Minority Studies |
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