The Routledge History of Global Nazism

Introduction. Part I. 1. The Far Right before the Third Reich. 2. Fascism's Global Script: Mussolini's Italy and the Rise and Radicalization of Nazism. 3. Nazism and the Global Great Depression. 4. Fascism as (Anti-)Globalism: The Crisis of Globalization and the Rise of National Socialism. 5. National Socialism and Anti-Black Racism in the United States. 6. Nazi Antisemitism and the "Jewish Question" in Global Context, 1919–1939. 7. Perceptions and Projections of Nazi Womanhood: A Case-Study of the United States, 1933–39. 8. Nazi Family Policies in Global Context. 9. Were the Nazis Christians? The Answer (Yes) and Its Global Significance. Part II. 10. Nazism as an Imperial Project. 11. Of Guilty Men and Economic Consequences: The Global Origins of the Second World War. 12. Nazis and the Nordmark. 13. Interpreting Eastern Europe as Colonial Space. 14. Anti-Globalism and the Politics of Space. 15. Nazism, International Law, and Nationalist Internationalism. 16. Nazi Entanglements with Southeast Asia: Hostilities, Ambivalences, and Prospects of Global Nazism in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies Under Shifting Political Rule, 1933–1945. 17. Selling the Third Reich to Iran: Contesting the Historiography of Middle East Fascisms. 18. "Bremen – Key to the World": The Local Politics of Nazi Colonial Revisionism. Part III. 19. SS and Police in the Nazi Empire. 20. Sex Under/After Fascism. 21. Global Nazism and the Holocaust. 22. The Global Dimensions of Victory and Defeat: Hermeneutical and Spatial Shifts in the Strategy of the Conservative and Military Resistance in the Third Reich, 1938–1944. 23. Naming Destruction: Genocide Law and the Silence on Empire. 24. Playing with Fire: Public Debates on the Singularity of the Holocaust. 25. Hanna Reitsch and the Postcolonial Legacies of Nazism. 26. The "German Colony" in Southern Chile: An Outpost of Refracted National Socialism. 27. Neo-Nazism in Transnational Perspective: North America, Western Europe, and the Middle East. 28. "The Wheel of History Cannot Turn Backward": The Old Right, the New Right, and Nazi Internationalism in the German Federal Republic.

Biography

S. Jonathan Wiesen is Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.  He is the author of four books, including Nazi Germany: Society, Culture, and Politics (2024) and Jim Crow in Berlin: Modern Germany and US Race Relations from Slavery to the Holocaust (2027).

Julia S. Torrie is Professor of History at St. Thomas University, Canada. She is the author of German Soldiers and the Occupation of France (2018) and “For Their Own Good”: Civilian Evacuations in Germany and France, 1939-1945 (2010), and co-editor of German-occupied Europe in the Second World War (2019).

Eric Kurlander is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History at Stetson University, USA. He has published eight books and co-edited volumes, including Modern Germany: A Global History (2023), Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (2017), and Living with Hitler: Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich (2009).

Jennifer V. Evans is Professor of History at Carleton University, Canada. She has published The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism (2023), Life Among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin (2011), and most recently, Holocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape (2023), cowritten with Meghan Lundrigan and Erica Fagen.

“Featuring multiple brilliant contributors, this compendium provides a wide-ranging yet in-depth examination of the transgressive power of Nazism to have an impact beyond Germany, politics, and the collapse of the Third Reich. It is an essential and timely resource for scholars and students of history, Holocaust studies, international relations, and extremist ideologies.”

Ricky W. Law, Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University

 

“An impressively wide-ranging collection of new research that brings fresh perspectives to our understanding of Nazism, locating both its origins and impact in a much wider global context, and serving as timely reminder that it was part of an entangled transnational network of fascist ideologies and movements, past and - not least - present.”

Tim Kirk, Professor Emeritus of European History, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University