![]() | Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany Subjects: National socialism; Germany -- Social conditions -- 1933–1945; Minorities -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Gays -- Nazi persecution; Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany; Germany -- Ethnic relations; Gypsies -- Nazi persecutions; When Hitler assumed power in 1933, he and other Nazis had firm ideas on what they called a racially pure "community of the people." They quickly took steps against those whom they wanted to isolate, deport, or destroy. In these essays informed by the latest research, leading scholars offer rich histories of the people branded as "social outsiders" in Nazi Germany: Communists, Jews, "Gypsies," foreign workers, prostitutes, criminals, homosexuals, and the homeless, unemployed, and chronically ill. Although many works have concentrated exclusively on the relationship between Jews and the Third Reich, this collection also includes often-overlooked victims of Nazism while reintegrating the Holocaust into its wider social context. Robert Gellately holds the Strassler Family Chair for the Study of Holocaust History in the Center for Holocaust Studies at Clark University. His books include Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany and The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933-1945 . Nathan Stoltzfus , Associate Professor in the Department of History at Florida State University, is the author of Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany . |
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