The Spirit of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)

Wildt, Michael

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“…From a more empirical angle, Michael Wildt's study of the leading members of the Reichsicherheitshauptsamt (RSHA)—described by Wildt as the ‘genocidal core’ of the Nazi regime—also incorporates Voegelin's ‘political religion’ into the analysis of the perpetrators' motivations as he finds ‘political religion’ to be heuristically fruitful in order to approach Nazi belief. This approach, however, depends on acknowledging the aspect of belief, rather than focusing on religious exteriors, such as rituals and symbols (Wildt , p. 334). What Wildt, and more theoretically, Vondung and Ley arrive at is an argument that the phenomenological dimension of ‘political religion’ alone is necessary when applied to Nazi perpetrators.…”

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Between Sacred and the Profane: Holocaust Collaboration and ‘Political Religion’

Wennberg

2014

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This article interprets the genealogy of the concept of 'political religion' in Holocaust research from the fundamental division between 'sacred' and 'profane' understandings of traditional religions. It argues that 'political religion' is understood as 'sacred' and unique when associated with Nazism, whilst its application to European fascism more generally has had a character of understanding religion as comparative and measureable from a 'profane' set of criteria. Yet, in light of research on Nazi ideology and fascist collaboration in the Holocaust, which effectively imply an interaction between Nazi and fascist agencies, the article finds that 'political religion' needs a re-theorization that can accommodate for the integration between the sacred and the profane.

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Between Sacred and the Profane: Holocaust Collaboration and ‘Political Religion’

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2014

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Enemies of the People

Stackhouse¹

2021

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How do terror and popularity merge under a dictatorship? How did the Gestapo deal with critics of Nazism? Based on hundreds of secret police case files, Enemies of the People explores the day-to-day reality of political policing under Hitler. Examining the Gestapo's policy of 'selective enforcement', J. Ryan Stackhouse challenges the abiding perception of the Gestapo as policing exclusively through terror. Instead, he reveals the complex system of enforcement that defined the relationship between state and society in the Third Reich and helps to explain the Germans' abiding support for Hitler and their complicity in the regime's crimes. Stories of everyday life in Nazi Germany paint the clearest picture yet of just how differently the Gestapo handled certain groups and actions, and the routine investigation, interrogation, and enforcement practices behind this system. Enemies of the People offers penetrating insights into just how reasonable selective enforcement appeared to Germans, and draws unavoidable parallels with the contemporary threat of authoritarianism.

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Enemies of the People

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The Spirit of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)

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Between Sacred and the Profane: Holocaust Collaboration and ‘Political Religion’

Between Sacred and the Profane: Holocaust Collaboration and ‘Political Religion’

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