Overview
"On the murderous road to """"racial purity"""" Hitler encountered unexpected detours, largely due to his own crazed views and inconsistent policies regarding Jewish identity. After centuries of Jewish assimilation and intermarriage in German society, he discovered that eliminating Jews from the rest of the population was more difficult than he'd anticipated. As this study shows, nowhere was that heinous process more fraught with contradition and confusion than in the German military. It reveals a startlingly large number of German military men were classified by the Nazis as Jews or """"partial-Jews"""", in the wake of racial laws first enacted in the mid-1930s. This book documents that many of these men did not consider themselves Jewish, had embraced the military and were patriots eager to serve a revived German nation."
Full Product Details
Author: Bryan Mark Rigg
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Imprint: University Press of Kansas
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.70cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.942kg
ISBN: 9780700611782
ISBN 10: 0700611789
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 06 May 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
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Reviews
"An impressive work filled with interesting stories.... By helping us better understand Nazi racial policy at the margins - i.e., its impact on certain members of the German military - Rigg's study clarifies the central problems of Nazi Jewish policies overall. NORMAN NAIMARK, AUTHOR OF FIRES OF HATRED: ETHNIC CLEANSING IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE """"An illuminating and provocative study that merits a wide readership and is sure to be much discussed."""" DENNIS E. SHOWALTER, AUTHOR OF TANNENBERG: CLASH OF EMPIRES"
An impressive work filled with interesting stories.... By helping us better understand Nazi racial policy at the margins - i.e., its impact on certain members of the German military - Rigg's study clarifies the central problems of Nazi Jewish policies overall. NORMAN NAIMARK, AUTHOR OF FIRES OF HATRED: ETHNIC CLEANSING IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE An illuminating and provocative study that merits a wide readership and is sure to be much discussed. DENNIS E. SHOWALTER, AUTHOR OF TANNENBERG: CLASH OF EMPIRES
An impressive work filled with interesting stories.... By helping us better understand Nazi racial policy at the margins - i.e., its impact on certain members of the German military - Rigg's study clarifies the central problems of Nazi Jewish policies overall. NORMAN NAIMARK, AUTHOR OF FIRES OF HATRED: ETHNIC CLEANSING IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE An illuminating and provocative study that merits a wide readership and is sure to be much discussed. DENNIS E. SHOWALTER, AUTHOR OF TANNENBERG: CLASH OF EMPIRES
Author Information
Bryan Mark Rigg received his B.A. with honors in history from Yale University in 1996. Yale awarded him the Henry Fellowship for graduate study at Cambridge University, where he received his M.A. in 1997. Currently an adjunct professor of military history at American Military University, he has served as a volunteer in the Israeli Army and as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. His research for this book has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and London Daily Telegraph.
