Volksgemeinschaft zwischen Bedeutungsvielfalt und Homogenitätsanspruch

Lots of fuss over the National Socialist Volksgemeinschaft in German research on National Socialism: With the new edited volume "Visions of Community in Nazi Germany. Social Engineering and Private Lives" the debate reaches the English-speaking world. The editors, Martina Steber and Bernhard Gotto, introduce an innovative model to systematize the meaning, power and impact of the Volksgemeinschaft concept in the Third Reich and in so doing develop a new social history of National Socialism. Moritz Föllmer, Elizabeth Harvey, Peter Longerich and Dietmar Süß critically assess its innovative potential for explaining social and cultural change during the Nazi dictatorship