Jeffrey Herf Livres

Le site de l'éditeur indique : "Une enquête approfondie sur les origines idéologiques du nazisme, mélange de pensée antimoderne et d'exaltation des technologies les plus avancées."

Undeclared Wars with Israel examines a spectrum of antagonism by the East German government and West German radical leftist organizations - ranging from hostile propaganda and diplomacy to military support for Israel's Arab armed adversaries - from 1967 to the end of the Cold War in 1989. This period encompasses the Six-Day War (1967), the Yom Kippur War (1973), Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and an ongoing campaign of terrorism waged by the Palestine Liberation Organization against Israeli civilians. This book provides new insights into the West German radicals who collaborated in 'actions' with Palestinian terrorist groups, and confirms that East Germany, along with others in the Soviet Bloc, had a much greater impact on the conflict in the Middle East than has been generally known. A historian who has written extensively on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, Jeffrey Herf now offers a new chapter in this long, sad history.

An account of the West German euromissile debate of the 1970s and 1980s

This text exposes the workings of past beliefs and political interests in how the two Germany's have recalled the crimes of Nazism, from the anti-Nazi emigration of the 1930s through the establishment of a day of remembrance for the victims in 1996.

An examination of Nazi propaganda activities targeting Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East during World War II and the Holocaust. It explores the intellectual, political, and cultural context in which German and European radical anti-Semitism was found to resonate with similar views rooted in a selective appropriation of the traditions of Islam.

In a unique application of critical theory to the study of the role of ideology in politics, Jeffrey Herf explores the paradox inherent in the German fascists' rejection of the rationalism of the Enlightenment while fully embracing modern technology. He documents evidence of a cultural tradition he calls 'reactionary modernism' found in the writings of German engineers and of the major intellectuals of the. Weimar right: Ernst Juenger, Oswald Spengler, Werner Sombart, Hans Freyer, Carl Schmitt, and Martin Heidegger. The book shows how German nationalism and later National Socialism created what Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, called the 'steel-like romanticism of the twentieth century'. By associating technology with the Germans, rather than the Jews, with beautiful form rather than the formlessness of the market, and with a strong state rather than a predominance of economic values and institutions, these right-wing intellectuals reconciled Germany's strength with its romantic soul and national identity.

The Holocaust's magnitude has captured attention for decades, yet the rationale behind the Nazis' atrocities often remains overlooked. German wartime media portrayed a narrative that depicted German citizens as targets of an international conspiracy, led by a powerful Jewish clique manipulating world leaders like Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. Hitler framed the Holocaust as a defensive measure, asserting it was essential to eliminate Jews before they could destroy Germany. Joseph Goebbels and Otto Dietrich’s Press Office crafted this fanatical vision into a coherent narrative, which permeated everyday life through various media. Drawing on extensive archival research, Jeffrey Herf reconstructs the propaganda that Germans encountered, from wall posters at streetcars to radio broadcasts and sensational headlines. This study is the first to examine how anti-Semitism shaped Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust, revealing how it unified the delusional elements of Nazi ideology. Herf presents a chilling exploration of how Hitler justified war and genocide as a necessity against an imagined omnipotent Jewish enemy. In a time when anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories still affect global politics, this work serves as a crucial reminder of their dangers and offers a new perspective on the paranoia that fueled the Third Reich's ideology.

This book examines antagonism to Israel by East and West Germany, from the Six-Day War through the Cold War. číst celé

Three Faces of Antisemitism examines the three primary forms of antisemitism as they emerged in modern and contemporary Germany, and then in other countries.

Israel's Moment is a major new account of the foundation of the State of Israel from 1945 to 1949. Jeffrey Herf reveals how support for and opposition to the Jewish state in Palestine in the United States and Europe was very different from the way these positions came to be understood during the... číst celé