In this book, the author argues that the Nazis did not cloak their radical approaches to law and order in utter secrecy, but played them up in the press and loudly proclaimed the superiority of their system over all others.
Using primary evidence, the author reveals the social consensus behind the Nazi regime and persecution of racial minorities & social outsiders. Debate still rages over how much ordinary Germans knew about the concentration camps and the Gestapo's activities during Hitler's reign…
This book is a study of a community under attack, and its goal is to describe, analyze, and illuminate the response of that community to a series of unexpected and deeply threatening developments. Just a few years after achieving full civil emancipation in 1871, the Jews of Germ…
Akturk discusses how the definition of being German, Soviet, Russian and Turkish radically changed at the turn of the twenty-first century. Germany's ethnic citizenship law, the Soviet Union's inscription of ethnic origins in personal identification documents and Turkey's prohib…
Discusses covert and overt expressions of antisemitism in present-day Germany, giving many recent examples. Traces the history of German antisemitism: religious, racist, political. Evaluates polls, showing that ca. 20% of Germans are antisemitic to a greater or lesser degree, bu…
In this book the author explores through the prism of Rosenweig's image of how German Jews have understood and contended with their two-fold spiritual patrimony. He deepens the discussion to consider also how the German-Jewish experience bears upon the general random experience …