Der (illegible) des Deutschen Reiches - Vortrag 1940 [The (illegible) of the German Reich - Lecture 1940]

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Series[UMA-SRE-20190021] RESEARCH AND UNPUBLISHED PAPERS OF FRITZ LOEWEAccession[1988.0020] Consolidated Papers of Fritz Philipp LoeweIdentifierUMA-ITE-2019002100262Scope and ContentEnvelope containing handwritten notes (presumably for a lecture) by Fritz Loewe at The University of Melbourne (?) in 1940.
Topics include: The basis of the conflict in Western Europe; perceptions of Adolf Hitler; the relationship between the 'Volk' and the State being different in the founding of the Nazi state to any other European nation; How the concept of race was interposed in the relationship between the State and the 'Volk' in Germany, similar to the way in which the 'White Australia' policy was used to exclude southern Europeans; the way myths (such as those of the 'Nordic Race' are used to reconstruct history; How the State, the people and the race is positioned as a higher form of being than the individual; The justification of war as a biological phenomenon in which the individual sacrifices himself; The concept of the 'Fuehrer' and his followers as an almost religious construct rather than a political one; The redifining of certain words (eg. Honor) under the German rule; The expansion of the Nazi Party from a political organisation to a social control organisation, youth organisation, military organisation, etc; The foundation of the German Reich being based on a rejection of the democratic principles of the Weimar Republic; The situation in Germany being one without apparent solution.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2019.0021 Unit 0019

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CreatorLoewe, Fritz P.RoleProvenance

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Date1940

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Language of MaterialGerman (ger)

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Der (illegible) des Deutschen Reiches - Vortrag 1940 [The (illegible) of the German Reich - Lecture 1940]