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1 online resource |
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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 |
| Summary |
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, party functionaries, and intelligence agents who quietly navigated the transition to postwar life and successfully assimilated into a changed society after the war ended. In A Nazi Past, German and American scholars examine the lives and careers of men like Hans Globke -- who not only escaped punishment for his prominent involvement in formulating the Third Reich's anti-Semitic legislation, but also forged a successful new political career. They also consider the story of Gestapo employee Gertrud Slottke, who exhibited high productivity and ambition in sending Dutch Jews to Auschwitz but eluded trial for fifteen years. Additionally, the contributors explore how a network of Nazi spies and diplomats who recast their identities in Franco's Spain, far from the denazification proceedings in Germany. Previous studies have emphasized how former Nazis hid or downplayed their wartime affiliations and actions as they struggled to invent a new life for themselves after 1945, but this fascinating work shows that many of these individuals actively used their pasts to recast themselves in a democratic, Cold War setting. Based on extensive archival research as well as recently declassified US intelligence, A Nazi Past contributes greatly to our understanding of the postwar politics of memory |
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Includes index |
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Nazis -- Germany (West) -- Biography
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Denazification -- Germany (West)
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Ex-Nazis -- Germany (West) -- Psychology
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Denial (Psychology) -- Case studies
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War criminals -- Germany (West) -- Biography
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National socialism -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Group identity -- Germany (West)
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Denazification.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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Denazification
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Denial (Psychology)
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Group identity
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National socialism -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Nazis
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War criminals
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Germany (West)
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Case studies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Messenger, David A., editor
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Paehler, Katrin, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780813160573 |
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081316057X |
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9780813160580 |
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0813160588 |
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