Germany and the Second World War Volume IX I: German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the Struggle for Survival (Germany and the Second World War)

The Second World War Affected The Lives And Shaped The Experience Of Millions Of Individuals In Germany - Soldiers At The Front, Women, Children And The Elderly Sheltering In Cellars, Slave Labourers Toiling In Factories, And Concentration-camp Prisoners And Pows Clearing Rubble In The Reich's Devastated Cities. Taking A 'history From Below' Approach, The Volume Examines How The Minds And Behaviour Of Individuals Were Moulded By The Party As The Reich Took The Road To Total War. The Ever-increasing Numbers Of German Workers Conscripted Into The Wehrmacht Were Replaced With Forced Foreign Workers And Slave Labourers And Concentration Camp Prisoners. The Interaction In Everyday Life Between German Civilian Society And These Coerced Groups Is Explored, As Is That Society>'s Relationship To The Holocaust. From Early 1943, The War On The Home Front Was Increasingly Dominated By Attack From The Air. The Role Of The Party, Administration, Police, And Courts In Providing For The Vast Numbers Of Those Rendered Homeless, In Bolstering Civilian Morale With 'miracle Revenge Weapons' Propaganda, And In Maintaining Order In A Society In Disintegration Is Reviewed In Detail. For Society In Uniform, The War In The East Was One Of Ideology And Annihilation, With Intensified Indoctrination Of The Troops After Stalingrad. The Social Profile Of This Army Is Analysed Through Study Of A Typical Infantry Division. The Volume Concludes With An Account Of The Various Forms Of Resistance To Hitler's Regime, In Society And The Military, Culminating In The Failed Attempt On His Life In July 1944. CONTENTS......Page 6 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 14 LIST OF TABLES......Page 15 NOTES ON THE AUTHORS......Page 16 NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION......Page 18 ABBREVIATIONS......Page 19 GLOSSARY OF FOREIGN TERMS......Page 35 FOREWORD......Page 37 I. ‘WAR ON TWO FRONTS’......Page 40 II. A COHERENT WAR SOCIETY?......Page 46 1. The Utopia of a Volksgemeinschaft at Arms......Page 47 2. Propaganda as a Weapon......Page 58 3. Hitler’s Charismatic Rule, and the Führer Myth......Page 64 4. Social Control, Self-Policing, and Resistance......Page 70 1. Women on the ‘Home Front’ and in Military Service......Page 80 2. The Morale of the Troops......Page 88 3. Genocidal Warfare, and Fighting the Enemy Within......Page 99 4. Death on the Home and Foreign Fronts: War and the Cult of the Hero......Page 110 IV. PRINCIPLES FOR AND STRUCTURE OF THE VOLUMES......Page 123 1. Guiding Principles......Page 124 2. Structure......Page 131 PART I: Rule, Destroy, Survive......Page 142 INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE......Page 144 I. THE NSDAP’S STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS BEFORE THE WAR......Page 150 II. MOBILIZING THE TROOPS, AND MOULDING MINDS AND BEHAVIOUR AT HOME, SEPTEMBER 1939 TO APRIL 1941......Page 163 III. ‘PEOPLE MANAGEMENT’ ON THE HOME FRONT, MAY 1941 TO JULY 1943......Page 187 IV. ON THE ROAD TO TOTAL WAR, AUGUST 1943 TO MAY 1945......Page 211 V. THE NSDAP AND THE VOLKSGEMEINSCHAFT......Page 240 I. PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS......Page 246 II. THE INITIAL STAGES OF PRISONER DEPLOYMENT......Page 248 III. URBAN SATELLITE CONCENTRATION CAMPS......Page 267 IV. THE CAMPS AND GERMAN SOCIETY......Page 297 V. CONCENTRATION CAMPS ANCHORED IN GERMAN SOCIETY......Page 322 I. INTRODUCTION......Page 326 II. HOLOCAUST AND WAR......Page 328 III. SOCIETY AND HOLOCAUST IN THE WAR......Page 372 IV. NORMALITY OF THE UNIMAGINABLE: WAR WITHIN THE WAR......Page 408 I. THE BOMBING WAR SEEN AS A HISTORICAL EVENT......Page 410 II. THE WAR, AS SEEN ON THE HOME FRONT......Page 414 III. ‘FULLY SERVING THE DEFENCE EFFORT’: THE ADMINISTRATION, POLICE, AND COURTS......Page 435 IV. COPING WITH THE BOMBING WAR......Page 445 V. ACCOMMODATION, PROVISIONING, AND ‘REPLACEMENT HOMES’......Page 472 VI. ‘REVENGE’ AND MIRACLE WEAPONS PROPAGANDA......Page 488 VII. THE ‘SOCIETY IN DISINTEGRATION’, 1944/1945......Page 497 VIII. THE BOMBING WAR IN FIGURES......Page 514 PART II: The Uniformed Society?......Page 516 INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO......Page 518 I. THE LEGACY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR......Page 524 II. THE POLITICIZATION OF THE REICHSWEHR/WEHRMACHT......Page 540 III. IDEOLOGICAL WARFARE IN THE EARLY, VICTORIOUS PHASE......Page 563 IV. THE WAR OF IDEOLOGY AND ANNIHILATION IN THE EAST......Page 576 V. BETWEEN OPTIMISM AND DEFIANCE: WAR FOUGHT UNDER MILITARY-IDEOLOGICAL LEADERSHIP......Page 598 VI. THE SHOCK OF STALINGRAD AND THE CRISIS OF MILITARY-IDEOLOGICAL LEADERSHIP......Page 621 VII. THE ‘FÜHRER ORDER’ OF 22 DECEMBER 1943......Page 653 VIII. IDEOLOGICAL INDOCTRINATION AND PERSONNEL SELECTION......Page 666 IX. THE TOTALNESS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM AFTER 20 JULY 1944......Page 687 I. PRINCIPLES AND PROSPECTS FOR RESEARCHING THE SOCIAL STRUCTURES OF WEHRMACHT UNITS......Page 710 II. CHANGES IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE ARMY......Page 717 III. ANALYSIS OF A SPECIMEN INFANTRY DIVISION......Page 728 IV. RESULTS......Page 806 I. RESISTANCE IN GERMAN WAR SOCIETY......Page 810 II. THE MILITARY CONSPIRACY: MILITARY MOTIVES FOR RESISTANCE......Page 819 III. THE WAR AS CRIME......Page 846 IV. COMMUNIST RESISTANCE DURING THE WAR......Page 860 V. THE BATTLE WITH THE PARTY AND THE SS......Page 866 VI. THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COUP D’ÉTAT: GENERAL STAFF PLANS AND THE MILITARY PUTSCH......Page 874 VII. RESISTANCE AND ENDING THE WAR......Page 915 VIII. RESISTANCE ACTIVITIES UNCONNECTED WITH 20 JULY 1944......Page 944 IX. EFFECTS AND CONSEQUENCES......Page 951 X. MUTINY, OR MORAL REVULSION?......Page 957 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 965 C......Page 1068 G......Page 1069 I......Page 1070 M......Page 1071 R......Page 1072 S......Page 1073 Z......Page 1074 This Is The Second In The Comprehensive Ten-volume Germany And The Second World War. The Five Volumes So Far Published In German Take The Story To The End Of 1941, And Have Achieved International Acclaim As A Major Contribution To Historical Study. Under The Auspices Of The Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt (research Institute For Military History), A Team Of Renowned Historians Has Combined A Full Synthesis Of Existing Material With The Latest Research To Produce What Will Be The Definitive History Of The Second World War. This Volume Surveys The First Year Of The War Deliberately Begun By Nazi Germany. The Authors Examine The Train Of Interconnected Political And Military Events, And Set Military Operations Against The Background Of Hitler's War Policy And General Aims, Both Immediate And Long Term. The Authors Show That The Conflict Took A Course Quite Different From That Which Hitler Had Intended, But Nevertheless Resulted In A Series Of Conquests For The Third Reich. V. 1. The Build-up Of German Aggression / Wilhelm Deist [and Others] -- V. 2. Germany's Initial Conquests In Europe / Klaus A. Maier [and Others] -- V. 3. The Mediterranean, South-east Europe, And North Africa, 1939-1941 / Gerhard Schreiber, Bernd Stegemann, Detlef Vogel -- V. 4. The Attack On The Soviet Union / Horst Boog [and Others] -- V. 5. Organization And Mobilization Of The German Sphere Of Power / Bernhard R. Kroener [and Others] 2 Pts. -- V. 6. The Global War / Horst Boog [and Others] -- V. 7. The Strategic Air War In Europe And The War In The West And East Asia 1943-1944/5 -- V. 8. The Eastern Front 1943-1944: The War In The East And On The Neighbouring Fronts -- V. 9, Pt. 1. German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Politicization, Disintegration, And The Struggle For Survival / Ralph Blank [and Others] -- V. 9, Pt. 2. German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Exploitation, Interpretations, Exclusion / Berhnard Chiari [and Others]. Edited By The Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (research Institute For Military History). Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Translated From The German. Volume VII of the 'Germany and the Second World War' series looks at Germany and her Japanese ally on the defensive after the tide of war turned in 1943. An exhaustive study of the air war over the Reich and the Luftwaffe's growing impotence is followed by an account of the invasion of occupied France and the Allies' advance to Germany's borders. A final section examines Japan's defeat and capitulation, and the creation of a new order in the Far East. - ;By the spring of 1943, after the defeat at Stalingrad, the writing was on the wall This volume focuses on how the war affected individuals - from soldiers to slave labourers. After examining the Party's role in moulding public attitudes and how German society related to the Holocaust, it looks at the social structure of military units, ideological indoctrination of the troops, and resistance to the regime