The conventional view within scholarship of the history is that solely Adolf Hitler conceptualized National Socialism. I challenge this historical perceptive, as I contend that the political-philosophical principals which Nazism espoused had been in existence well before Hitler came to the foreground of German politics. Furthermore, I will argue that it was through sheer force of will and political manoeuvring that Hitler managed to attain the leadership of the Nazi Movement and then expropriated it for his own worldview.
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A New Nationalist Europe Under Hitler Concepts of Europe and Transnational Networks in the National Socialist Sphere of Influence, 1933–1945 Edited by Johannes Dafinger, Dieter Pohl. London: Routledge August 2018.
Nazis, fascists and völkisch conservatives in different European countries not only cooperated internationally in the fields of culture, science, economy, and persecution of Jews, but also developed ideas for a racist and ethno-nationalist Europe under Hitler. The present volume attempts to combine an analysis of Nazi Germany’s transnational relations with an evaluation of the discourse that accompanied these relations. Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Johannes Dafinger, Dieter Pohl Part I: Concepts of Europe 1 "Volksgruppen Rights" versus "Minorities Protections": The Evolution of German and Austrian Political Order Paradigms from the 1920s to 1945 Ulrich Prehn 2 Speaking Nazi-European: The Semantic and Conceptual Formation of the National Socialist "New Europe" Johannes Dafinger 3 From the Greater German Reich to the Greater Germanic Reich: Arthur Seyss-Inquart and the Racial Reshaping of Europe Johannes Koll 4 Nazi Plans for a New European Order and European Responses Tim Kirk 5 Hispanidad in the völkisch "New Order" of Europe (1933–1945) Marició Janué i Miret 6 Portugal, Salazar and the Nazi "New Order" in Europe Cláudia Ninhos Part II: Science, Academia, and Culture 7 Controlling Agriculture in Greece (1935–1944): Land Exploitation, Peasant Mobilization, and Big Science Maria Zarifi 8 "Population Pressure" and Development Models for Southeastern Europe: Interactions between German and Southeastern European Economists, 1930–1945 Ian Innerhofer 9 Educating the "Intellectual Army" of the "New Europe"? Foreign Students and Academic Exchange in Nazi Germany Holger Impekoven 10 Film Axis and Film Europe: German-Japanese and German-Italian Cooperation in the Film Industry from 1933 to 1945 Silvia Hofheinz 11 Building a New Europe on the Back of ‘German’ Science: Völkisch Ideologies and Imperialistic Visions at the Academy of Sciences in Vienna Felicitas Seebacher Part III: Economy 12 Völkisch Ideology within the Central European Economic Conference (Mitteleuropäischer Wirtschaftstag) Markus Wien 13 When Ends Become Means: Post-War Planning and the Exigencies of War in the Discussion about a New Economic Order in Europe (1939–1945) Raimund Bauer Part IV: Raumordnung and Racism 14 "The Anti-Semite Internationale": The Exporting of Anti-Jewish Scholarship and Propaganda by the Third Reich Dirk Rupnow 15 Heralds of a New Order: Mussolini, Hitler and the Purging of Europe Patrick Bernhard Index
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