Much has been written about the conditions that made possible Hitler's rise and the Nazi takeover of Germany, but when we tell the story of the National Socialist Party, should we not also speak of Julius Caesar and Pericles? Greeks, Romans, Germans argues that to fully understand the racist, violent end of the Nazi regime, we must examine its appropriation of the heroes and lessons of the ancient world. When Hitler told the assembled masses that they were a people with no past, he meant that they had no past following their humiliation in World War I of which to be proud. The Nazis' constant use of classical antiquity—in official speeches, film, state architecture, the press, and state-sponsored festivities—conferred on them the prestige and heritage of Greece and Rome that the modern German people so desperately needed. At the same time, the lessons of antiquity served as a warning: Greece and Rome fell because they were incapable of protecting the purity of their blood against mixing and infiltration. To regain their rightful place in the world, the Nazis had to make all-out war on Germany's enemies, within and without.

Greeks, Romans, Germans: How the Nazis Usurped Europe’s Classical Past

History

Chapoutot, Johann

Ancient Civilizations

University of California Press

Much has been written about the conditions that made possible Hitler's rise and the Nazi takeover of Germany, but when we tell the story of the National Socialist Party, should we not also speak of Julius Caesar and Pericles? Greeks, Romans, Germans argues that to fully understand the racist, violent end of the Nazi regime, we must examine its appropriation of the heroes and lessons of the ancient world. When Hitler told the assembled masses that they were a people with no past, he meant that they had no past following their humiliation in World War I of which to be proud. The Nazis' constant use of classical antiquity—in official speeches, film, state architecture, the press, and state-sponsored festivities—conferred on them the prestige and heritage of Greece and Rome that the modern German people so desperately needed. At the same time, the lessons of antiquity served as a warning: Greece and Rome fell because they were incapable of protecting the purity of their blood against mixing and infiltration. To regain their rightful place in the world, the Nazis had to make all-out war on Germany's enemies, within and without.

Greeks, Romans, Germans: How the Nazis Usurped Europe's Classical Past (Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature)

Nybakken, Richard R.

The scale and the depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy with such ruthless ambition? Observers and historians have offered countless explanations since the 1930s. According to Johann Chapoutot, we need to understand better how the Nazis explained it themselves. We need a clearer view, in particular, of how they were steeped in and spread the idea that history gave them no choice: it was either kill or die.Chapoutot, one of France’s leading historians, spent years immersing himself in the texts and images that reflected and shaped the mental world of Nazi ideologues, and that the Nazis disseminated to the German public. The party had no official ur-text of ideology, values, and history. But a clear narrative emerges from the myriad works of intellectuals, apparatchiks, journalists, and movie-makers that Chapoutot explores.The story went like this: In the ancient world, the Nordic-German race lived in harmony with the laws of nature. But since Late Antiquity, corrupt foreign norms and values―Jewish values in particular―had alienated Germany from itself and from all that was natural. The time had come, under the Nazis, to return to the fundamental law of blood. Germany must fight, conquer, and procreate, or perish. History did not concern itself with right and wrong, only brute necessity. A remarkable work of scholarship and insight, The Law of Blood recreates the chilling ideas and outlook that would cost millions their lives.

The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi

Europe

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

What if the rules of modern capitalism&nbsp;were written during the Third Reich? Reinhard Höhn (1904-2000) was a commander of the SS, one of Nazi Germany's most brilliant legal minds, and an archetype of the fervid technocrats and intellectuals that built the Third Reich. Following Germany's defeat, after a few years in hiding, he emerged in the early 1950s as the founder and director of a renowned management school in Lower Saxony. Höhn's story wouldn't be very different from that of many other prominent Nazis if not for the fact that a vast number of Germany's postwar business leaders--more than 600,000 executives--were educated at his management school. In this fascinating book, Johann Chapoutot, one of France's most brilliant historians, traces the profound links between Nazism and the principles of modern corporate management, our definitions of success, and a concept of personal freedom that masks rigid hierarchical structures of power and control. "One of the most gifted European historians of his generation."--Timothy Snyder, New York Times best-selling author of On Tyranny

Free to Obey: How the Nazis Invented Modern Management

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Europa Compass

La loi du sang: Penser et agir en nazi

Gallimard]

1937-1947 : la guerre-monde (1)

Bourke, Joanna

COLLECTIFS

Laurens, Henry

Traverso, Enzo

Echternkamp, Jörg

NDIAYE, Pap

Manley, Rebecca

Margolin, Jean-Louis

Singaravélou, Pierre

Jennings, Eric

Lieb, Peter

Mouré, Kenneth

ANDRIEU, Claire

Ferragu, Gilles

Fleury, Antoine

JOURNOUD PIERRE

Grosser, Pierre

Sanderson, Claire

Bantigny, Ludivine

Lambauer, Barbara

Compagnon, Olivier

Jeanpierre, Laurent

Martens, Stefan

Matard-Bonucci, Marie-Anne

Bruttmann, Tal

Lefèbvre, Camille

Tertrais, Hugues

Bruneau, Jean-Baptiste

Cerovic, Masha

Decorzant, Yann

Feiertag, Olivier

Fabreguet, Michel

Flechet, Anaïs

Noël, Jean-Sébastien

Forcade, Olivier

Gaida, Peter

Gomolinski, Olivia

Vaicbourdt, Nicolas

Kevonian, Dzovinar

Lespinois, Jérôme de

Lory, Bernard

Margairaz, Michel

Pratt, Valéry

Raflik, Jenny

Фоліо

1937-1947 : la guerre-monde (2)

Reinhard Höhn (1904-2000) est l'archétype de l'intellectuel technocrate au service du IIIᵉ Reich. Juriste, il se distingue par la radicalité de ses réflexions sur la progressive disparition de l'État au profit de la "communauté" définie par la race et son "espace vital". Brillant fonctionnaire de la SS - il termine la guerre comme Oberführer (général) -, il nourrit la réflexion nazie sur l'adaptation des institutions au Grand Reich à venir - quelles structures et quelles réformes ? Revenu à la vie civile, il crée bientôt à Bad Harzburg un institut de formation au management qui accueille au fil des décennies l'élite économique et patronale de la République fédérale : quelque 600 000 cadres issus des principales sociétés allemandes, sans compter 100 000 inscrits en formation à distance, y ont appris, grâce à ses séminaires et à ses nombreux manuels à succès, la gestion des hommes. Ou plus exactement l'organisation hiérarchique du travail par définition d'objectifs, le producteur, pour y parvenir, demeurant libre de choisir les moyens à appliquer. Ce qui fut très exactement la politique du Reich pour se réarmer, affamer les populations slaves des territoires de l'Est, exterminer les Juifs. Passé les années 1980, d'autres modèles prendront la relève (le japonais, par exemple, moins hiérarchisé). Mais le nazisme aura été un grand moment managérial et une des matrices du management moderne.\nFrom the Back Cover\nReinhard Höhn (1904-2000) est l'archétype de l'intellectuel technocrate au service du IIIᵉ Reich. Juriste, il se distingue par la radicalité de ses réflexions sur la progressive disparition de l'État au profit de la "communauté" définie par la race et son "espace vital". Brillant fonctionnaire de la SS - il termine la guerre comme Oberführer (général) -, il nourrit la réflexion nazie sur l'adaptation des institutions au Grand Reich à venir - quelles structures et quelles réformes ? Revenu à la vie civile, il crée bientôt à Bad Harzburg un institut de formation au management qui accueille au fil des décennies l'élite économique et patronale de la République fédérale : quelque 600 000 cadres issus des principales sociétés allemandes, sans compter 100 000 inscrits en formation à distance, y ont appris, grâce à ses séminaires et à ses nombreux manuels à succès, la gestion des hommes. Ou plus exactement l'organisation hiérarchique du travail par définition d'objectifs, le producteur, pour y parvenir, demeurant libre de choisir les moyens à appliquer. Ce qui fut très exactement la politique du Reich pour se réarmer, affamer les populations slaves des territoires de l'Est, exterminer les Juifs. Passé les années 1980, d'autres modèles prendront la relève (le japonais, par exemple, moins hiérarchisé). Mais le nazisme aura été un grand moment managérial et une des matrices du management moderne.

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