Zeitbild Nationalsozialismus

The app enables access to digital content - directly from the printed book.

Scanning takes you to a total of 125 additional illustrations, 75 film and video sequences, 109 audio files, 130 secondary texts and text documents, and 90 links to websites and web portals. These are assigned to the content of a double page and supplement the timeline "National Socialism" of the Federal Agency for Civic Education to form a hybrid book.

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In this overview, Gerhard Paul and Michael Wildt describe National Socialism from its beginnings to the present day as social and media history. According to this, the NS “Volksgemeinschaft” meant terror and opportunities for participation, repression and mobilization, exclusion and the offer of inclusion. Political opponents and especially those excluded in the racist worldview were discriminated against, persecuted and murdered. The majority of society could participate, benefit from it – or resist.

Using contemporary sources, the authors show and analyze the perspectives of the perpetrators, victims and apparently bystanders in Germany and Europe, in the metropolises and in the provinces. They pay particular attention to the media dimension, because National Socialist rule, war and mass murder ultimately created their own visual and audio worlds. The app for the book makes them available directly, curated and without research or detours.