1st Edition

A New Nationalist Europe Under Hitler Concepts of Europe and Transnational Networks in the National Socialist Sphere of Influence, 1933–1945

Edited By Johannes Dafinger, Dieter Pohl Copyright 2019
    324 Pages
    by Routledge

    324 Pages
    by Routledge

    Nazis, fascists and völkisch conservatives in different European countries not only cooperated internationally in the fields of culture, science, economy, and persecution of Jews, but also developed ideas for a racist and ethno-nationalist Europe under Hitler. The present volume attempts to combine an analysis of Nazi Germany’s transnational relations with an evaluation of the discourse that accompanied these relations.



    List of Contributors



    Acknowledgements



    Abbreviations



    Introduction



    JOHANNES DAFINGER AND DIETER POHL



    PART I Concepts of Europe



    1 “Volksgruppen Rights” versus “Minorities Protections”: the evolution of German and Austrian political order paradigms from the 1920s to 1945



    ULRICH PREHN



    2 Speaking Nazi-European: the semantic and conceptual formation of the National Socialist “New Europe”



    JOHANNES DAFINGER



    3 From Greater German Reich to Greater Germanic Reich: Arthur Seyss-Inquart and the racial reshaping of Europe



    JOHANNES KOLL



    4 Nazi plans for a new European order and European responses



    TIM KIRK



    5 Hispanidad in the völkisch “New Order” of Europe (1933–1945)



    MARICIÓ JANUÉ I MIRET



    6 Portugal, Salazar, and the Nazi “New Order” in Europe



    CLÁUDIA NINHOS



    PART II Science, academia, and culture



    7 Controlling agriculture in Greece (1935–1944): land exploitation, peasant mobilization, and big science



    MARIA ZARIFI



    8 “Population pressure” and development models for Southeastern Europe: interactions between German and Southeastern European economists, 1930–1945



    IAN INNERHOFER



    9 Educating the “intellectual army” of the “New Europe”? Foreign students and academic exchange in Nazi Germany



    HOLGER IMPEKOVEN



    10 Film Axis and film Europe: German-Japanese and German-Italian cooperation in the film industry from 1933 to 1945



    SILVIA HOFHEINZ



    11 Building a New Europe on the back of “German” science: völkisch ideologies and imperialistic visions at the Academy of Sciences in Vienna



    FELICITAS SEEBACHER



    PART III Economy



    12 Völkisch ideology within the Central European Economic Conference (Mitteleuropäischer Wirtschaftstag)



    MARKUS WIEN



    13 When ends become means: post-war planning and the exigencies of war in the discussion about a new economic order in Europe (1939–1945)



    RAIMUND BAUER



    PART IV Raumordnung and racism



    14 “The Anti-Semite Internationale”: the exporting of anti-Jewish scholarship and propaganda by the Third Reich



    DIRK RUPNOW



    15 Heralds of a “new order”: Mussolini, Hitler, and the purging of Europe



    PATRICK BERNHARD



    Index



     

    Biography



    Johannes Dafinger is Assistant Professor for Contemporary History at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria.



    Dieter Pohl is Professor for Contemporary History at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria.