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Baldur von Schirach

Nazi Leader and Head of the Hitler Youth

By: Oliver Rathkolb

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Baldur von Schirach

Nazi Leader and Head of the Hitler Youth

By: Oliver Rathkolb

Though three of his four grandparents were from America and the first language he learned at home was English, Baldur von Schirach became one of the Third Reich’s most influential individuals. He joined the Nazi Party as early as 1925 at the age of eighteen and three years later became a member of its National Leadership. He also married Henriette, the daughter of Hitler’s personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. Von Schirach continued to rise through the ranks of the Nazi Party, reaching the rank of SA-Gruppenführer. It was as the leader of the Hitler Youth organization, however, for which von Schirach is best remembered, becoming Reichsführer of the Hitler Youth on 16 June 1932, and the following year was given responsibility for all youth organizations in Germany. He also became a member of the Reichstag as a representative of the Party. Despite his influential position, he was called up for military service and served in the French campaign of 1940. Following this he became Reich Governor and the Nazi’s Gauleiter Reichsstatthalter in Vienna – powerful positions he retained until the final collapse of the Third Reich in May 1945. His responsibilities as Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter included overseeing the deportation of Vienna’s Jews to ghettos and concentration camps in occupied Poland. Though a confirmed anti-Semite, later in the war he pleaded for a moderate treatment of the eastern European peoples and criticized the conditions in which Jews were being deported. This caused a breach with Hitler and the Nazi leadership, though he managed to retain his position in Vienna. Following his capture by US troops, von Schirach was among the major war criminals put on trial at Nuremburg. Found guilty of crimes against humanity on 1 October 1946, von Schirach was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. He served out his time in the company of Rudolf Hess and Albert Speer in Spandau prison. He admitted his crimes and his role in the deportations and in his autobiography, I Believed in Hitler, he explained how he was drawn into the world of the Nazis. He also said that his aim was destroy any belief in the rebirth of Nazism as well as blaming himself for not having done more to prevent the concentration camps. This detailed and balanced analysis of Baldur von Schirach reveals the true and ambivalent nature of a complex and fascinating individual who played a key role in the events leading up to, and during, the Second World War.

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1399020986

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Revisiting the National Socialist Legacy

Coming to Terms with Forced Labor, Expropriation, Compensation, and Restitution

By: Oliver Rathkolb

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Revisiting the National Socialist Legacy

Coming to Terms with Forced Labor, Expropriation, Compensation, and Restitution

By: Oliver Rathkolb

Since the mid-1990s, political, legal, and historical debates about Nazi theft and confiscation of property, the use of slave labor during World War II, and restitution and compensation have reemerged. Revisiting the National Socialist Legacy presents completely new historical research on these issues conducted worldwide.This volume responds to concern about Holocaust era assets in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. It focuses on both reexamination of the history of National Socialist property theft and employment of forced labor in the wartime economy, and the compensation and restitution solutions advanced in various European and Latin American countries since 1945.

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1351320866

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The Paradoxical Republic

Austria 1945-2005

By: Oliver Rathkolb

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The Paradoxical Republic

Austria 1945-2005

By: Oliver Rathkolb

This title explores paradoxical perceptions about Austria in regard to its approach to immigration, the EU and historical events.

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Baldur von Schirach

Nazi Leader and Head of the Hitler Youth

By: Oliver Rathkolb

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Nazi Leader and Head of the Hitler Youth

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Revisiting the National Socialist Legacy

Coming to Terms with Forced Labor, Expropriation, Compensation, and Restitution

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Coming to Terms with Forced Labor, Expropriation, Compensation, and Restitution

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The Paradoxical Republic

Austria 1945-2005

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Austria 1945-2005

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This title explores paradoxical perceptions about Austria in regard to its approach to immigration, the EU and historical events.

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Campaigning in Radical Right Heartland

The politicization of immigration and ethnic relations in Austrian general elections, 1971-2013

By: Oliver Gruber

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Campaigning in Radical Right Heartland

The politicization of immigration and ethnic relations in Austrian general elections, 1971-2013

By: Oliver Gruber

Immigration and ethnic diversity are contentious political issues in contemporary Europe. Both increasingly structure the campaigning strategies of political parties. This book provides insights into the processes driving party politicization. It presents findings from the heartland of the radical right studying competition on migration and diversity in Austria since the 1970s. It reveals how parties adapt their electoral priorities to changes in the party system and the socio-structural conditions. The findings document the evolution of a new dimension of political competition and how niche parties can impact on mainstream party politicization in the electoral arena. Oliver Gruber is post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck.

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The Paradoxical Republic

Austria 1945–2020

By: Oliver Rathkolb

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The Paradoxical Republic

Austria 1945–2020

By: Oliver Rathkolb

From its emergence out of the ashes of World War II through to the economic and political challenges of today, Austria has embodied many of the contradictions of recent European history. Written by one of the nation’s leading historians, this account of postwar Austria explores the tensions that have defined it for over seven decades, whether in its overlapping policies of engagement and isolationism, its grandiose visions and persistent sense of inferiority, or its position as a model social democracy that has suffered recurrent bouts of xenophobic nationalism. This newly revised edition also addresses the major developments since 2005, including a resurgent far right, economic instability, and the potential fracturing of the European Union.

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1789207452

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The Struggle for a Democratic Austria

Bruno Kreisky on Peace and Social Justice

By: Bruno Kreisky

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The Struggle for a Democratic Austria

Bruno Kreisky on Peace and Social Justice

By: Bruno Kreisky

His stature enabled him to play an active part in the promotion of the Arab-Israeli dialogue and pave the way for President Jimmy Carter's mediation of the Israeli-Egypt peace accord through his close relationship with Sadat. As a result of such activity, Kreisky was respected and praised by every U.S. administration from Kennedy to Reagan, and was on excellent terms with Khrushchev and Brezhnev, despite his support for the containment of Soviet communism."--BOOK JACKET.

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Baldur von Schirach

Baldur von Schirach

Revisiting the National Socialist Legacy

Revisiting the National Socialist Legacy

The Paradoxical Republic

The Paradoxical Republic

Baldur von Schirach

Baldur von Schirach

Revisiting the National Socialist Legacy

Revisiting the National Socialist Legacy

The Paradoxical Republic

The Paradoxical Republic

Campaigning in Radical Right Heartland

Campaigning in Radical Right Heartland

The Paradoxical Republic

The Paradoxical Republic

The Struggle for a Democratic Austria

The Struggle for a Democratic Austria

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