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Hitler, Holocaust and ‘Volksgemeinschaft’

According to the blurb for Thomas Kühne’s new book Belonging and Genocide. Hitler’s Community, 1918-1945, ‘no one has ever posed a satisfactory explanation for the extreme inhumanity of the Holocaust.’ Künhe’s study is not giving one, either, but it offers a provocative and thought-provoking argument, putting the ‘Volksgemeinschaft’ and the German people’s yearning for it at the centre of the antisemitic dynamic that started in the Weimar Republic and ended in the Holocaust.

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OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Jochen Hung (June 22, 2012). Hitler, Holocaust and ‘Volksgemeinschaft’ Weimar Studies Network. Retrieved February 13, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/vbk0