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Northeim is a town on the Leine River situated in the hilly region of Lower Saxony between Hildesheim and Göttingen; to historians it is known as the location of William Sheridan Allen’s path-breaking study of the Nazi Machtergreifung. The book was based on a 1962 dissertation at the University of Minnesota, and Allen first published it while at the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1965. Within two years, it appeared in England and was translated into German and French. Allen had settled at the State University of New York in Buffalo by the time I read the second, revised edition (New York 1984), which I used to write this review. In the forty years since its publication, Allen’s readable history became a standard for undergraduates in North America; and his microhistory of the Machtergreifung has been replicated in most German localities. A number of American scholars in particular have followed in Allen’s footsteps: Peter Fritzsche, David Imhoof, Rudy Koshar, and others, including myself. Part of the reason for the interest of American doctoral students in German Mittelstädte is, of course, pragmatic. When one has limited time and money for a research trip abroad, it seems reasonable to select for study an ‘überschaubare’ provincial town. The peculiarities of American culture is surely another reason that historians from the United States look for the German equivalent of ‘middle America’ in what Mack Walker called ‘German home towns’.1 But in the end, German historians from many countries, including Germany, have adopted Allen’s method because close investigations of events ‘on the ground’ offer a necessary balance to modern German histories ‘writ large’.
Modeled after the Soviet propaganda magazine SSSR na stroike (›USSR in Construction‹, published 1930–1941, 1949), the Japanese overseas propaganda photo magazine FRONT (1942–1945) provided visual propaganda for the so-called ›Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere‹, a concept that was proclaimed in 1940 and served to disguise Japan’s quest for hegemony in Asia. Employing the aesthetics of Russian Constructivism and Socialist Realism of SSSR na stroike, FRONT created a visual aesthetic that could be termed Japanese Co-Prosperity Realism. Its dynamic and modernistic design was a transculturally inspired practice by Japanese photographers, graphic designers, journalists and producers of visual media, some of whom had been left-wing intellectuals or had lived and worked in the Soviet Union. In a comparative perspective, this paper carves out the political, cultural and gendered semantics of the (in)visibility of power, political religion and ethnic diversity that such aesthetics entailed. It explores some of the shifting backgrounds against which photographic techniques were enacted, from their avant-garde beginnings to their application in authoritarian regimes.
Am 13. Mai 1939, also ein gutes Vierteljahr vor Beginn des Zweiten Weltkrieges, ließ Robert Ley, Reichsorganisationsleiter der NSDAP und Chef der Massenorganisation Deutsche Arbeitsfront, unter dem Titel „Nachlese und Bilanz vom 1. Mai 1939", in der nationalsozialistischen Tageszeitung „Der Angriff' einen Leitartikel publizieren. ...
Vor allem drei Faktoren bestimmten während des "Dritten Reiches" die Struktur der Frauenarbeit: erstens die geschlechtsspezifische, biologistisch begründete Diskriminierung, zweitens der klassenbezogene Aspekt sowie drittens der Rassismus. Zweifelsohne waren alle drei Faktoren für das Verhalten des NS-Regimes gegenüber Frauen und für die Wandlungen der Struktur lohnabhängiger, idustrieller Frauenarbeit während des "Dritten Reiches" relevant. Entscheidend ist jedoch die Frage nach der Gewichtung der drei Faktoren: ...