79 years after the end of the Third Reich, social and political history seems to have grasped Nazism in all its ambiguities. Faced with the myriad of publications, is there still a “Nazi enigma”? How can we renew the approaches and contributions of the history of Nazism?
Nazism is not an ideology, but a worldview, as Johann Chapoutot, Christian Ingrao and Nicolas Patin assert in The Nazi World 1919-1945 a sum of 600 pages which has just been published by Editions du Tallandier. This work, divided into three large parts: “The Conquest of Power (1919-1934)”, “Anatomy of a Dictatorship (1934-1939)” and “The Genocide War (1939-1945)”, attempts to renew the historical perspective on this period, thanks to the convergence of new perspectives and new research, providing a completeness of elements. This book aims to “ describe the historical process » of the rise of Nazism in Germany, and in Europe, and to reveal the paradoxes and contradictions of the world view ( Worldview ) of the “Third Reich”.
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Social and political history has endeavored to describe Nazism in all its facets, as a worldview characterized by the dialectic between a rejection of the existing and an aspiration for a new world. This future becomes decisive for the Nazis, since the value of being merges with the political project when the new world shapes a new man. How can we account for the ambiguities and paradoxes of this totalitarian, racist and violent worldview? How can we describe the Nazi worldview, encompassed in all its ambiguities and paradoxes? What made the Nazi discourse a synthesis of biology and politics? How can we deconstruct the idea that Nazism was an accident in political history?
To go further:
– John Chapoutot written with Christian Ingrao and Nicolas Patin The Nazi World 1919-1945published by Tallandier on September 19, 2024
– Johann Chapoutot published Thinking and acting like a Nazi in 2014, Hitler in 2018 at PUF with Christian Ingrao or even Free to obey, management, from Nazism to today at Gallimard in 2020
