Family punishment in Nazi Germany
Subtitle: Sippenhaft, terror and myth
By: by Robert Loeffel
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780230343054
Subjects: Politics and government; State-sponsored terrorism; Dissenters; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; Punishment; Social conditions; Family relationships; HISTORY / Military / World War II; HISTORY / Europe / Germany; History
Description: "In the Third Reich, political dissidents were not the only ones liable to be punished for their crimes. Their parents, siblings and relatives also risked reprisals. This concept - known as Sippenhaft - was based in ideas of blood and purity. This definitive study surveys the threats, fears and infliction of this part of the Nazi system of terror"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Sippenhaft, Terror and Fear : The Historiography of the Nazi Terror State; title: The Consent and Coercion Debate; title: Method of Transmission; title: Importance of Rumour in Nazi Germany; title: Outline of this Book; title: A Word on Sources; title: Conclusion; title: PART I: SIPPENHAFT AND GERMAN SOCIETY, 1933-1945; title: Sippenhaft and the Rise to Power; title: Sippenhaft and Resistance during Second World War; title: The German Home Front after Stalingrad; title: Conclusion; title: PART II: "IMPRISONMENT OF RELATIVES, LIFE OR LIBERTY" : SIPPENHAFT AND THE WEHRMACHT; title: The Foundation of Sippenhaft in the Wehrmacht; title: Sippenhaft and the Wehrmacht, 1939-1944; title: Sippenhaft against Volksdeutche Germans; title: Sippenhaft after the 20 July 1944; title: Codification of Terror; title: Conclusion; title: PART III: SIPPENHAFT AND THE NKFD AND THE BDO; title: Background; title: The German Reaction; title: Cherkassy; title: Effect of 20 July 1944 181; title: The Limits of Sippenhaft; title: Sippenhaft and the Political Significance of the NKFD and BDO; title: Conclusion; title: PART IV: "IF A MAN IN THIS REICH IS UNTRUE, THEN HE AND HIS FAMILY WILL BE PUNISHED"; title: Sippenhaft and the 20 July 1944; title: Establishing Sippenhaft and 20 July 1944; title: Sippenhaft put into Effect; title: Continuing Rhetoric, Fear, Expansion and Limitations of Sippenhaft; title: The Fate of the von Stauffenberg Family; title: The Transformation of Sippenhaft and the 20 July 1944; title: Challenging Terror: Interventions, Representations and Release; title: Confusion and Fear; title: Those that Remained in Sippenhaft Detention; title: Conclusion; title: PART V: SIPPENHAFT KINDERHEIM : THE CHILDREN IN BAD SACHSA; title: The Sippenhaft Prisoners of Bad Sachsa; title: Life in the Camp: Determining Intention; title: A Change of Plan; title: Conclusion; title: Bibliography.