Germany Historiography Flashcards
“Nazi success in Protestant rural and middle class Germany was facilitated by the fact that political loyalties there were either weak or non-existent.”
Geary
The “special path” (sonderweg)
Shirer
“Weak dictator”
Kershaw on Hitler
“His words go like an arrow to their target, he touches each private wound on the raw, liberating the mass unconscious, expressing its innermost aspirations, telling it what it most wants to hear”
Strausser
“Master of the third Reich”
Bracker on Hitler
“the ruin of the German peasant will be the ruin of the German people.”
Hitler
“in general the church hierarchy sought to avoid conflict with the regime without endorsing all aspects of its policies”
Geary
“The churches opposition was issue driven … rather than rooted in a coherent, politically active anti-Nazi morality”
Housden
“Churches were the only institutions which both had an alternative ideology to that of the regime and were permitted to retain their own organisational autonomy. This made them a major obstacle to the Nazi attempt to establish total control over German life”
Noakes
“it is difficult to say just how successful the Nazi reshaping of education proved to be in practice”
Mosse
“Nazi educational efforts as a whole turned out to be poorly thought out and lacking substance. At best the Nazi’s put a thin ideological veneer on German education”
Fischer
“Nazi indoctrination was able to miseducate and misuse a whole generation of young people”
Fischer
“what national socialist training produced, however were duller and stupider, though healthier, individuals”
Kuntz
“Germans were not historically or psychologically prepared for self-government”
Fischer on Weimar Republic
“Political parties had very limited experience in a democratic parliamentary system because before 1919, the reichstag had not controlled policy”
Lowe on Weimar Republic
