Woodruff D. Smith
Autor von The Ideological Origins of Nazi Imperialism
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Woodruff D. Smith Professor of History at the University of Texas, San Antonio.
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- Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Boston
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The story gets more interesting when the author gets to World War I where the imperialistic ideologies and their assumptions of automatic German superiority had to some extent be re-evaluated. The discussion of ideological developments in the Weimar republic was also reasonably interesting, although again the author goes into quite a lot of detail when presenting individual ideologues and their writings. Then finally come the Nazis. The author actually treats Nazi imperialism surprisingly briefly given the title of this book, but that's a good thing. No useful purpose would have been served by detailing Hitler's or Rosenberg's versions of Weltpolitik and Lebensraum - they would be familiar to most readers. The story of this book is that they built their ideology on a pre-existing tradition.
In summary, this is a high-quality historical book but I am a bit doubtful as to whether or not it is well-suited for educated non-specialists. Most ideologies are just castles in the sky, and as such they are not a very interesting topic for detailed study unless and until somebody tried to put them into practice.… (mehr)