Generation des Unbedingten: Das Führungskorps des Reichssicherheitshauptamtes (German Edition)
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The image of the perpetrators of the holocaust we form is often as one-dimensional as it is contradictory.
Were they cold, pragmatic bureaucrats, wheels in a machinery - or radical antisemitic mass murderers taking joy in their atrocities? Was it ideology, a concious choice intentionalist school or various factors within a society in a state of a war of extermination culminating in radicalization structuralist school that led to genocide?
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Wildt approaches the question from a slightly differe The image of the perpetrators of the holocaust we form is often as one-dimensional as it is contradictory. Wildt approaches the question from a slightly different angle, one that offers many benefits of clarity: The RSHA, a hybrid organisation of SD and Security police, was led chiefly by young academics with a radical worldview, but it was the structure of the institution itself, its dynamics of deregulation and expansion, that gave those radicals the opportunity to implement their "all or nothing" worldview.
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The redefinition of the police as a force itself as representing the "security" interrests of a volk or race rather than a state had severe consequences: The RSHA was an adaptive Institution with a tendency to cross boundaries wherever they could, but the ideological foundation would never change, the realities and problems that these people faced would not have the effect of "pragmatization" observed in other institutions. Rather the answer to any problem was a more radical version of the original solution, which in turn would radicalize the worldview as well as it would result in a deregulation and radicalization on an institutional level that would correspond.
This description does a good job in combining overcome and simplified intentionalist and structuralist explanations in a more convincing synthesis. Idgiesmom Shotsky rated it really liked it Jun 13, Dirk-Jan rated it it was amazing Mar 12, Robert rated it liked it Aug 15, Timothy Isenmann rated it it was amazing Dec 28, Frank Auletto rated it really liked it Jun 03, Allison rated it liked it Apr 01, Coltrane rated it really liked it Jul 17, Peter rated it it was amazing Mar 28, Jeffrey rated it really liked it Mar 05, Brick Wahl rated it really liked it Sep 10, Phillip Tigue rated it it was amazing Apr 08, Krista rated it it was amazing Oct 01, Jody Manning rated it it was amazing Sep 20, Eryk rated it really liked it Dec 12, Molly rated it it was amazing Jan 29, Shelly rated it it was amazing May 05, Morten Ildal rated it liked it Mar 16, Yinzadi marked it as to-read Aug 05, Thomas added it Aug 19, Nika Maglaperidze marked it as to-read Mar 14, Adam marked it as to-read Oct 21, Ben added it Nov 14, Carlos Baeza marked it as to-read Oct 12, What was it, then, that made these educated young men rally behind Hitler?
One factor was a biologistic understanding of society that explained the defeat in World War I and the perceived corruption of the Weimar Republic as resulting from degenerative forces opposed to the organic whole of the German people. They will merely say: Second, these men longed for a field of work where they could contribute to this mission directly and actively.
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Skepticism, academic distance, and differentiation were considered detrimental to the cause. Every individual had to commit himself totally. Quick, unscrupulous decision-making in the relentless pursuit of a radical goal became a virtue. Third, the harsh final years of the Weimar Republic caused widespread apprehension on the campuses.
Job opportunities seemed scarce even for the best qualified. Wildt convincingly demonstrates, then, that those involved in organizing the Holocaust on the highest level were highly educated, young, and ambitious.
Their commitment to relentless action and their will to power set the genocide in motion. Organizing a genocide of that extent required intellect and was not merely a result of anonymous structures. According to Ernst Fraenkel, the Nazi state was a dual one: The former ensured that the general socioeconomic order was left intact and provided a sense of security to the German public.
It merged all the institutions and organizations the Nazis had used to secure their power: It was an institution designed for the war.
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It remained highly flexible throughout its existence, shunning bureaucratic stiffness, shifting its organizational structure according to the needs of the war and its genocidal tasks. New departments were created, older ones dissolved, responsibilities transferred with every new challenge the regime faced.
Both the individual and the structure relied too much on each other. The only thing that finally stopped the endeavor, however, was the demise of the Nazi Reich and the dissolution of its Weltanschauung -police. Only a few committed suicide or stood trial; only ten RSHA members were defendants in the Einsatzgruppen trial of and only one of them, Otto Ohlendorf, was executed.
The majority emerged intact and resumed new lives. They did not turn into democrats, but just as an untrammeled setting had turned them into mass murderers, the lack of such a framework now contained them. He offers fresh insights regarding the debate on whether structure or intention was the fundamental prerequisite for the Shoah.
Democratic and antifascist politicians rallied in postwar Germany to pardon Dr. Martin Sandberger, who had commanded Einsatzkommando 1a and killed many with his own hands.
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They could not believe this exceptionally bright man had committed such atrocities. All the cases Wildt presents show that those who worked diligently to organize the genocide were neither mindless bureaucrats nor half-educated fanatics who would otherwise have failed in a liberal-democratic environment. Wildt raises troubling questions about the role of so-called intellectuals in an unconstrained setting.
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