Claudia Koonz
Autor/a de The Nazi Conscience
Sobre l'autor
Claudia Koonz received her doctorate from Rutgers University and is currently a history professor at Duke University. She is also the President of the Eleventh Berkshire Conference on the History of Women in Rochester, New York in 1999. Koonz combined her many interests in history to write Mothers mostra'n més in Fatherland: Women, Family, and the Nazi Party, which examines female participation in the Third Reich. Koonz has won the 1993 Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award from the Center for Teaching, Learning and Writing at Duke University. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Claudia Koonz
Obres associades
Becoming Visible: Women in European History (1977) — Col·laborador; Editor, algunes edicions — 230 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Koonz, Claudia
- Data de naixement
- 1940
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Educació
- Rutgers University (PhD)
Columbia University (MA)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (BA) - Professions
- professor
- Organitzacions
- Duke University
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- Obres
- 3
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 417
- Popularitat
- #58,443
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 5
- ISBN
- 21
- Llengües
- 6
- Preferit
- 1
This book analyzes the years leading up to the holocaust. How did Germany go from a country where Jews were usually fully integrated in the nation to a country where all civil rights of any Jewish person were extinguished and most people were ok with this state of affairs? This is an excellent question and one that deserves be answered and understood by educated people so society can be guarded from slipping down a path where the little things that were done to position society for the holocaust cannot be countenanced in modern civilized society. The change was not abrupt. While Hitler wrote his racist views into his book once he came to power for several years he said very little in public about the subject, content to have others speak and build enough consensus on the subject so when he finally spoke out against the Jews his views would be heard by a nation that already was predisposed to view the Jews as a lesser race scientifically and a threat to the German community. Towards the end of the book as Professor Koonz was summing up, she wrote: "Germans' readiness to expel Jews from their universe of moral obligation evolved as a consequence of their acceptance of knowledge disseminated by institutions they respected. Like citizens in other modern societies, residents of the Reich believed the facts conveyed by experts, documentary films, educational materials, and exhibitions. What haunts us is not only the ease with which soldiers slaughtered helpless civilians in occupied territories, but the specter of a state so popular that that it could mobilize the individual consciences of a broad cross-section of citizens in the service of moral catastrophe. This persuasive process has little in common with brain washing, which aims at turning it's subjects into mindless automatons. In Nazi Germany, faith in a virtuous Fuhrer and joy at belonging to a virtuous Volk (community) cultivated grassroots initiative and allowed for a margin of choice." "Despite having been raised to believe in the Golden Rule and probably more or less honoring it in their private lives, citizens of the Third Reich were shaped by a public culture so compelling that even those that who objected to one or more aspect of National Socialism came to accept the existence of a hierarchy of racially based human worth, the cult of the Fuhrer, and the desirability of territorial conquest. The Final Solution did not develop as evil incarnate, but rather as the dark side of ethnic righteousness. Conscience, originally seen to protect the integrity of the individual from the inhumane demands of the group, in the Third Reich became a means of underwriting the attack by the strong against the weak. To Germans caught up in a simulacrum of high moral purpose, purification of racial aliens became a difficult but necessary duty."… (més)