1971
DOI: 10.2307/1870516
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The Psychohistorical Origins of the Nazi Youth Cohort

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“…Political and nationalist movements involve far more than purely instrumental forms of mobilization, and social theory requires a theoretically informed sociology of emotions. Other scholars have engaged these issues, of course, and there is little doubt that Fromm's analysis of Nazism could have benefited from more stress on youth culture, gender, family, and sexuality (Koonz 1987;Theweleit 1989;Mitscherlich 1969;Loewenberg 1971). Moreover, contemporary scholars must avoid Fromm's tendency for overgeneralization and romanti cism.22 Nonetheless, Fromm's Escape from Freedom remains a neglected social science classic; his insights into the often irrational roots of human motivation demand our renewed attention.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Political and nationalist movements involve far more than purely instrumental forms of mobilization, and social theory requires a theoretically informed sociology of emotions. Other scholars have engaged these issues, of course, and there is little doubt that Fromm's analysis of Nazism could have benefited from more stress on youth culture, gender, family, and sexuality (Koonz 1987;Theweleit 1989;Mitscherlich 1969;Loewenberg 1971). Moreover, contemporary scholars must avoid Fromm's tendency for overgeneralization and romanti cism.22 Nonetheless, Fromm's Escape from Freedom remains a neglected social science classic; his insights into the often irrational roots of human motivation demand our renewed attention.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Physicians treating wartime neuroses (Sargant, ) report that single traumatic experiences can establish persisting and pervasive memories that transform the individual's personality. Autobiographies frequently attribute lifetime orientations to single significant experiences as when revolutionaries and other political ideologues (Billington, ; Davis, ; Loewenberg, ; Rejai & Phillips, ) attribute their powerful life‐long political convictions to incidents witnessed or experienced in childhood or adolescence.…”
Section: Ontogenetic Originsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Evidence for the first, critical‐period notion is stronger (Hinde, ) than that for the second, political‐generation notion (Bengston & Laufer, ). In the well‐studied case of National Socialism's appeal to the German population as Hitler rose to power in the early 1930s, autobiographical accounts suggest the importance of common experience during youth (Loewenberg, ; Merkl, ) but leaves unclear why the appeal of the National Socialists was so much less for the Catholic than the Protestant voters in Germany (Broszat, /1981; Childers, ; Hamilton, ; Schellenberger, ).…”
Section: Ontogenetic Originsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…I'm not sure why. There is no obvious reason why one could not, for example, take up the ideas about the modern Gennan experience recently sketched by Peter Loewenberg (26) and find out, birth cohort by birth cohort, how many individuals (and who) experienced the loss of their fathers during World War I, unemployment afterwards, and then chose the Nazis over the Communists. No obvious reason except the fact that it would be hard work.…”
Section: Conclusion and Possibilitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%