Research Catalog

Title

Nazism across borders : the social policies of the Third Reich and their global appeal / edited by Sandrine Kott and Kiran Klaus Patel.

Publication

• Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kott, Sandrine
• Patel, Kiran Klaus

Description

xi, 436 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

Nazism across Borders argues that Nazi social policies were part of transnational exchanges and processes. Beyond territorial conquest, the Nazis planned to export and internationalize their version of welfare, and promoted a new kind of internationalism, pitched as a superior alternative to its liberal and Communist contenders. Since the late nineteenth century, the 'German social model' had established itself as a powerful route for escaping from the precarious conditions associated with wage work. The Nazis capitalized on this reputation, continuing some elements, but also added new measures, mainly to pursue their antisemitic, racist, and highly aggressive goals. The contributions in this collection shed new light on the complex ways in which German and Nazi ideas were received and negotiated by non-German actors and groups around the world before the Second World War. Why were they interested in what was going on in Germany? To what extent did Nazi policies emulate programmes elsewhere (for example, in Fascist Italy), and where did they serve as role models? Nazi social policies, we argue, were a benchmark that societies as diverse as Japan, Norway, and the United States considered in making their own choices. Nazism across Borders breaks new ground for the history of the Second World War and 'Hitler's empire' in Europe. How did the Nazis export their ideas when they finally occupied large swaths of the continent and what was the role of non-German actors? What were the links to the better-known stories of exploitation of lands, resources, and peoples?

Series Statement

Studies of the German Historical Institute London

Uniform Title

Studies of the German Historical Institute London.

Subjects

• Social policy
• Fascism
• National socialism
• Social policy > History > 20th century > Congresses
• History
• Fascism > History > 20th century > Congresses
• Conference papers and proceedings
• National socialism > History > 20th century > Congresses
• 1900-1999
• Social policy > Cross-cultural studies > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• "Nazism across Borders is the result of a conference held at the German Historical Institute London in 2015."--Foreword.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Fascist internationalism : Nazi social policy as an imperial project : an introduction / Sandrine Kott and Kiran Klaus Patel -- Part I. Paths of internationalization. 2. Competing internationalisms : the Third Reich and the International Labour Organization / Sandrine Kott -- 3. The first takeover : the implementation of social policy measures in Austria by the Reich Ministry of Labour after the Anschluss / Ulrike Schulz -- 4. An unhappy return : German pension insurance policy in Alsace / Alexander Klimo -- 5. A dilemma of change and co-operation : labour and social policy in Bohemia and Moravia in the 1930s and 1940s / Radka Šustrová -- Part II. Allies and models. 6. Transferring radicalization? Social policy exchanges between fascism and national socialism / Daniela Liebscher -- 7. The Axis at work? Towards a transnational history of Japan's social and labour policy in the 1930s and early 1940s / Daniel Hedinger -- 8. When fascism does not keep its promises : the ambivalent relations of Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain in the field of social policy / Amélie Nuq -- 9. Under the hard law of war : Norwegian social reforms under German influence / Mats Ingulstad -- 10. From the Balkans to Germany and back : the Croatian Labour Service, 1941-1945 / Alexander Korb -- Part III. Reception and alternatives. 11. Defining alternatives : Nazi social policies and the New Deal / Jill M. Jensen and Kiran Klaus Patel -- 12. Labour policy, Germanness, and Nazi influence in Brazil / Ursula Prutsch -- Part IV. Occupied countries : rejection and hidden implementation. 13. Danish social policy in the shadow of Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 / Rasmus Mariager and Klaus Petersen -- 14. The Nazi social order implemented? The case of France / Marcel Boldorf and Hervé Joly -- 15. German ambitions and Belgian expectations : social insurance and industrial relations in occupied Belgium, 1940-1944 / Kenneth Bertrams and Sabine Rudischhauser.

Call Number

JFD 19-2269

ISBN

• 9780198828969
• 0198828969

LCCN

2018944713

OCLC

1064941161

Title

Nazism across borders : the social policies of the Third Reich and their global appeal / edited by Sandrine Kott and Kiran Klaus Patel.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies of the German Historical Institute London

Studies of the German Historical Institute London.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Kott, Sandrine, editor. Editor

Patel, Kiran Klaus, editor. Editor

Research Call Number

JFD 19-2269