The Fourth Reich : the specter of Nazism from World War II to the present /

Ever since the collapse of the Third Reich, anxieties have persisted about Nazism's revival in the form of a Fourth Reich. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld reveals, for the first time, these postwar nightmares of a future that never happened and explains what they tell us about Western political, intellect...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rosenfeld, Gavriel David, 1967- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Germany > Politics and government > 1945-1990. Germany > Politics and government > 1990- Germany > History > Errors, inventions, etc. National socialism > History. Nazis > History. Right-wing extremists > Germany. Political culture > Germany. Collective memory > Western countries. Fear > Political aspects > Western countries. Political culture > Western countries.

Table of Contents:

Between fantasy and nightmare : inventing the Fourth Reich in the Third Reich
From werewolves to democrats : the Fourth Reich under Allied occupation
The Fourth Reich turns right : renazifying Germany in the 1950s
From Germany to the United States : universalizing the Fourth Reich in the turbulent 1960s
"Hitler in Argentina!" : fictionalizing the Fourth Reich in the long 1970s
Re-Germanizing the Fourth Reich : from reunification to the Reich citizens' Movement.