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Kristiansen, Tor K - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Populism in in the Weimar Republic and in the USA today with a focus on Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump
University of Stavanger Norway, 2020Co-Authors: Kristiansen, Tor KAbstract:The main objective of this thesis is to investigate if Adolf Hitler used a populist style in his campaign for power during in the Weimar Republic. A contemporary understanding of populism has been used in this investigation. The thesis provides a review of recent scholarly literature on populism which is used as a reference in the investigation of Hitler and his agitation for the Nazi party. The basis for the investigation of Hitler is his book Mein Kampf and excerpts from some of his speeches. Excerpts from the leftist weekly magazine Die Weltbühne that was issued during the Weimar period has been used to provide some insight into how Hitler and the Nazis were viewed at the time. Some historical background for the events during the Weimar Republic is provided. The conclusion of this main objective of the thesis is that Hitler used a populist style to gain power in 1933. The secondary objective of the thesis is to provide a description of how populism has been expressed in the USA during the first three years of Donald Trump’s presidency. The scholarly literature on populism is used to explain some background for Trump’s populist behaviour. Opinions from the liberal press, mainly The New York Times and The Washington Post and also from recent books on Trump’s presidency are used to illustrate the situation. Populism thrives in the tension which exists in a democracy between popular sovereignty and liberal democracy with its emphasis on human rights, individual liberties, a political discourse based upon expertise and facts and the rule of law. A third objective of the thesis is to provide some comments on how populist leadership has challenged liberal democracy, as exemplified by the presidency of Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler’s assumption of power as Reichskanzler in the Weimar Republic
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Populism in in the Weimar Republic and in the USA today with a focus on Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump
University of Stavanger Norway, 2020Co-Authors: Kristiansen, Tor KAbstract:Master's thesis in History didacticsThe main objective of this thesis is to investigate if Adolf Hitler used a populist style in his campaign for power during in the Weimar Republic. A contemporary understanding of populism has been used in this investigation. The thesis provides a review of recent scholarly literature on populism which is used as a reference in the investigation of Hitler and his agitation for the Nazi party. The basis for the investigation of Hitler is his book Mein Kampf and excerpts from some of his speeches. Excerpts from the leftist weekly magazine Die Weltbühne that was issued during the Weimar period has been used to provide some insight into how Hitler and the Nazis were viewed at the time. Some historical background for the events during the Weimar Republic is provided. The conclusion of this main objective of the thesis is that Hitler used a populist style to gain power in 1933. The secondary objective of the thesis is to provide a description of how populism has been expressed in the USA during the first three years of Donald Trump’s presidency. The scholarly literature on populism is used to explain some background for Trump’s populist behaviour. Opinions from the liberal press, mainly The New York Times and The Washington Post and also from recent books on Trump’s presidency are used to illustrate the situation. Populism thrives in the tension which exists in a democracy between popular sovereignty and liberal democracy with its emphasis on human rights, individual liberties, a political discourse based upon expertise and facts and the rule of law. A third objective of the thesis is to provide some comments on how populist leadership has challenged liberal democracy, as exemplified by the presidency of Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler’s assumption of power as Reichskanzler in the Weimar Republic.updatedVersio
Thießen Malte - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Security, Society, and the State: Vaccination Campaigns in 19th and 20th Century Germany
DEU, 2021Co-Authors: Thießen MalteAbstract:Vaccinations are a dream of planning public health. They promise the eradication of epidemics and pandemics, the decline of infant mortality, and the control of collective health conditions. Vaccination is therefore never just about the health and disease of the individual. Vaccination campaigns always aim to optimize the society as well. The article traces this history of vaccination in the 19th and 20th centuries from the German Empire and the Weimar Republic to the Nazi era to the Federal Republic and the GDR. The history of vaccination is one of fears and hopes. In the fight against smallpox, diphtheria, and polio, against tuberculosis, measles, or influenza, Germans negotiated images of man and models of society, ideas of security and the future. This article therefore focuses on disputes between politicians and entrepreneurs, doctors and scientists, journalists, and parents. From the 19th century to the present day, they argue about the opportunities and risks of the immunized society
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Security, Society, and the State: Vaccination Campaigns in 19th and 20th Century Germany - Online Appendix with Original Quotes
DEU, 2021Co-Authors: Thießen MalteAbstract:This is the online appendix with original quotes to the article "Security, Society, and the State: Vaccination Campaigns in 19th and 20th Century Germany". Vaccinations are a dream of planning public health. They promise the eradication of epidemics and pandemics, the decline of infant mortality, and the control of collective health conditions. Vaccination is herefore never just about the health and disease of the individual. Vaccination campaigns always aim to optimize the society as well. The article traces this history of vaccination in the 19th and 20th centuries from the Ger-man Empire and the Weimar Republic to the Nazi era to the Federal Republic and the GDR. The history of vaccination is one of fears and hopes. In the fight against smallpox, diphtheria, and polio, against tuberculosis, measles, or influenza, Germans negotiated images of man and models of society, ideas of security and the future. This article therefore focuses on disputes between politicians and entrepreneurs, doctors and scientists, journalists, and parents. From the 19th century to the present day, they argue about the opportunities and risks of the immunized society
Klaus Grose Kracht - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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campaigning against bolshevism catholic action in late Weimar germany
Journal of Contemporary History, 2018Co-Authors: Klaus Grose KrachtAbstract:Under the banner of ‘Catholic Action’, Pius XI called the laity during the interwar period to struggle for a worldwide ‘re-Christianization of society’. Whatever this meant in detail, a religious frontline against communism was an essential part of the papal programme. Catholic anti-communism was not just a reaction to anticlerical communist ideas, however; rather, it accompanied the development of communist and socialist parties in Europe from the very beginning. As I will show in this article through the example of the diocese of Berlin, this papal anti-communism fell on fertile soil in the Catholic milieu of the Weimar Republic, and especially so within Catholic Action. At the head of Catholic Action in Berlin was Erich Klausener, who would later become a prominent victim of the so-called Night of the Long Knives (30 June 1934), when Hitler had a number of his political opponents on both the right and left executed. As we shall see, though, the activists of Catholic Action saw their political enemy les...
Dixon Madeline - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Weimar Republic and the War of Memory
SMU Scholar, 2021Co-Authors: Dixon MadelineAbstract:World War I dismantled Imperial Germany and, long after the fighting had ceased, continued to shape the newly-born Weimar Republic. This paper argues that a war over the memory of the Great War in Germany led to Weimar’s downfall. The Weimar Republic’s lack of a collective memory of the first total war became the center of the political debate on the Republic’s viability and Germany’s future. This war debate was potently wielded in the arenas of literature and art to heighten political conflict and ensure that the war’s memory seeped into every aspect of society. Ultimately, Weimar’s inability to promote any consensus on the war’s meaning in the face of opposition from the conservative and extremist right weakened the Republic significantly and led to its downfall
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The Weimar Republic and the War of Memory
SMU Scholar, 2020Co-Authors: Dixon MadelineAbstract:This paper is about the havoc World War I unleashed on Germany and its impact on the Weimar Republic. While the war dismantled Imperial Germany, a second war soon began to brew within the newly-formed Republic. This war over the memory of the Great War was a key player in Weimar’s destruction, and was rooted in differing interpretations of the war’s meaning, which existed as soon as the declarations of August 1914. The first of such narratives was the “Spirit of 1914,” an exuberant celebration of the war’s conception that took hold of Germans and drove them and their celebrations into the streets. Roger Chickering, Professor of History in the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University, argues that this “rhapsody on national unity offered no realistic formula for solving the problems that beset Germany in 1914 [and] …. was bound instead to raise expectations that the pressures of industrial warfare were calculated to frustrate.”1 As colossal losses and the realization that this war would not be quickly fought and won beset Germans, many realized that the optimistic promises the “Spirit of 1914” offered would come to naught. The almost immediate frustration of the “Spirit of 1914” was a dark foreshadowing of the effects of the Great War
Baláková Anna - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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New Right and its Reception of the Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic on the Example of the Magazin Sezession
2021Co-Authors: Baláková AnnaAbstract:The presented thesis deals with the New Right in Germany and its current reception of the Conservative Revolution of the Weimar Republic. The thesis primarily focuses on the German New Right, which it aims to define by its references to ideological and political stances of the right-wing conservative and extremist movement of the Weimar Republic - the Conservative Revolution. Based on a detailed textual analysis of selected articles from the New Right's journal Sezession, the thesis presents the elementary worldviews of the New Right as well as its rhetoric and strategies. Furthermore, it is demonstrated how the New Right perceives the central ideas of the Conservative Revolution (anti- enlightenment, anti-liberalism, anti-democracy, anti-parliamentarism, advocacy of an authoritarian state concept and promotion of a homogenous society) and how it implicitly or explicitly employs these ideas for its argumentation. The thesis proved that the worldviews of the Conservative Revolution nowadays still function as an ideological reservoir of the New Right, meaning also that the New Right is theoretically little innovative and takes over and passes on a large part of the ideas of the intellectuals of the Conservative Revolution, which are currently one hundred years old
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Nová pravice a její recepce Konzervativní revoluce Výmarské republiky na příkladu časopisu Sezession
Univerzita Karlova Fakulta sociálních věd, 2021Co-Authors: Baláková AnnaAbstract:Anhand einer detaillierten Textanalyse ausgewählter Artikel aus der Aufklärung, Befürwortung eines autoritären und einer möglichst homogenen rezipiert und sich dieser für ihre Argumentation implizit oder explizit großen sind, übernimmt und weiter Předkládaná diplomová práce pojednává o Nové pravici v Německu a její současné recepci Konzervativní revoluce Výmarské republiky. Práce se zabývá především německou Novou pravicí, kterou se snaží definovat jejím odkazováním se na ideologické a politické postoje Konzervativní revoluce, pravicově konzervativního až extremistického hnutí Výmarské republiky. Na základě detailní textové analýzy vybraných článků z časopisu Nové pravice je v této práci představeno nejen základní vnímání světa cí jako takové, ale také její rétorika a strategie. Práce přitom ukazuje, jak Nová pravice vnímá centrální myšlenky Konzervativní revoluce (anti osvícenství, anti parlamentarismus a prosazování autoritářského režimu a homogenní společnosti) a jak je dále ať implicitně či explicitně využívá pro svoji Při práci se hypotéz že šlenkový svět í revoluce dodnes funguje jako ideologický rezervoár pro scénu Nové pravice; Nová pravice je teoretické úrovni jen velice málo inovativní a elké části pouze přebírá a předává dále yšlenky Konzervativní revoluce, které sou nyní již let staré.The presented thesis deals with the New Right in Germany and its current reception of the Conservative Revolution of the Weimar Republic. The thesis primarily focuses on the German New Right, which it aims to define by its references to ideological and political stances of the right-wing conservative and extremist movement of the Weimar Republic - the Conservative Revolution. Based on a detailed textual analysis of selected articles from the New Right's journal Sezession, the thesis presents the elementary worldviews of the New Right as well as its rhetoric and strategies. Furthermore, it is demonstrated how the New Right perceives the central ideas of the Conservative Revolution (anti- enlightenment, anti-liberalism, anti-democracy, anti-parliamentarism, advocacy of an authoritarian state concept and promotion of a homogenous society) and how it implicitly or explicitly employs these ideas for its argumentation. The thesis proved that the worldviews of the Conservative Revolution nowadays still function as an ideological reservoir of the New Right, meaning also that the New Right is theoretically little innovative and takes over and passes on a large part of the ideas of the intellectuals of the Conservative Revolution, which are currently one hundred years old.Department of German and Austrian StudiesKatedra německých a rakouských studiíFakulta sociálních vědFaculty of Social Science
