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THE SUBJECTIVE DIMENSION OF NAZISM*

Part of: Historiographical Reviews

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2013

MORITZ FÖLLMER
MORITZ FÖLLMER*
Affiliation:
University of Amsterdam
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Department of History, University of Amsterdam, Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB, Amsterdam, Netherlands[email protected]
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Abstract

The present historiographical review discusses the subjective dimension of Nazism, an ideology and regime that needed translation into self-definitions, gender roles, and bodily practices to implant itself in German society and mobilize it for racial war. These studies include biographies of some of the Third Reich's most important protagonists, which have important things to say about their self-understandings in conjunction with the circumstances they encountered and subsequently shaped; cultural histories of important twentieth-century figures such as film stars, housewives, or consumers, which add new insights to the ongoing debate about the Third Reich's modernity; studies that address participation in the Nazi Empire and the Holocaust through discourses and practices of comradeship, work in extermination camps, and female ‘help’ within the Wehrmacht. In discussing these monographs, along the way incorporating further books and articles, the piece attempts to draw connections between specific topics and think about new possibilities for synthesis in an overcompartmentalized field. It aims less to define a ‘Nazi subject’ than to bring us closer to understanding how Hitler's movement and regime connected different, shifting subject positions through both cohesion and competition, creating a dynamic that kept producing new exclusions and violent acts.

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Historiographical Review
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The Historical Journal , Volume 56 , Issue 4 , December 2013 , pp. 1107 - 1132
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I should like to thank Rüdiger Graf, Armin Nolzen, and two anonymous referees for their comments on previous drafts of this article, as well as Michael Ledger-Lomas for his encouragement and patience.

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