Michael Wildt studied history, cultural studies, and theology at the University of Hamburg. From 1993 to 2009, he was a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Contemporary History in Hamburg, the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, and The International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. He is Professor of Modern German History at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

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Introduction

Chapter 1. Volksgemeinschaftas a Political Concept

• The origins of the Volksgemeinschaft during the First World War
• "All Authority emanates from the Volk"
• Weimar Parties and the Volksgemeinschaft
• Volksgemeinschaftas Exclusion

Chapter 2. Anti-Semitic Violence in the Weimar Republic

• Fall 1923
• Violence in the Provinces
• Caesura 1930
• Assault on the Constitutional State

Chapter 3. 1933 - "They won't do anything to us, after all we're Germans"

• April Boycott
• Emden
• Dual State

Chapter 4. The Boycott as a Political Arena

• Tradition of Boycotts
• Resentment
• Boycott Actions in Hesse
• Schlüchtern
• Gelnhausen
• Political Arena

Chapter 5. The Crowd as an Actor

• Gelnhausen
• Intensification of Violence
• East Prussia
• Collective Violence

Chapter 6."Racial Defilement" - Honor, Gender, and Volk's Justice

• Persecution of "Racial Defilement" after the Seizure of Power
• Pillory Processions 1935
• Norden
• Media
• Honor and Shame
• The Nuremburg Laws

Chapter 7. The Dilemma of the Politics of Violence

• The "Individual Actions" continue
• Jemgum
• Gladenbach
• Wolfhagen
• "Illusion of the Grace Period"

Chapter 8. Pogrom

• The Pogramatic Mood in the early Fall of 1938
• November Pogrom
• Wolfhagen
• Emden
• Norden
• Treuchtlingen
• Pogroms in Europe
• Effects

Conclusion: The Production of the Volksgemeinschaft

• Inclusion and Exclusion
• Division
• Honor and Shame
• Popular Justice (Volksrecht)
• Self-Empowerment

Bibliography

Index of Places