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Legitimation, Kooptation und Repression im NS-Regime
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Abstract "This essay deals with the interplay between cooptation, legitimation, and repression with a special emphasis on the Nazi attitude and the behavior towards politically indifferent Germans. It analyzes the ideological framework of justification for the repressive Nazi politics that were also used to ... view more
"This essay deals with the interplay between cooptation, legitimation, and repression with a special emphasis on the Nazi attitude and the behavior towards politically indifferent Germans. It analyzes the ideological framework of justification for the repressive Nazi politics that were also used to recruit followers who had a clean conscience and felt they were doing the right thing. Nazi ideology rejected the bourgeois - Christian concepts of universal human rights and dignity as anachronistic while simultaneously using these concepts for ideological purposes. Finally, the article shows how opportunism and radical activism stood side by side in Nazi Germany, with both of these attitudes contributing to the stabilization of the Nazi regime." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
legitimation; repression; Nazism; political system; ideology; historical development; conception; Jew; persecution of Jews; mass murder; bringing into line; Third Reich; racial policy; dictatorship; historical analysis
Classification
General History
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science
Method
historical
Document language
German
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 101-122
Journal
Totalitarismus und Demokratie, 9 (2012) 1
Issue topic
Ideokratien im Vergleich : Legitimation, Kooptation, Repression / Ideocracies in comparison : legitimation, cooptation, repression
ISSN
1612-9008
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications