S Jonathan Wiesen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5369877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S Jonathan Wiesen |
| GIVEN NAMES | S Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiesen |
| SIGNATURE | WIESEN S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Profits and Persecution: German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust
A Reusable Past: The Meaning of the Third Reich in Recent U.S. Discourse
It does not require great powers of observation to note the pervasiveness of Nazi Germany in contemporary U.S. cultural and political discourse. For better or worse, the discursive landscape is saturated with depictions of and references to Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Gestapo—an obsession visible everywhere, from the progressive left to the far right, from TV shows to Twitter feeds to video games. The allure of using the Third Reich as a rheto…
W illeke S andler . Empire in the Heimat: Colonialism and Public Culture in the Third Reich
Willeke Sandler’s study Empire in the Heimat: Colonialism and Public Culture in the Third Reich appears at a moment when scholars are delving deeply into Germany’s colonial past. They have studied the lives both of colonized people in former German territories in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific and of colonial subjects within Germany. They have interrogated the continuities between German imperialism and the Third Reich, focusing on the genocide of…
Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany Devin O. Pendas, Mark Roseman, and Richard F. Wetzell
One of the signs of a great work of revisionism is that a reader takes its arguments personally. This splendid book compels historians of Nazi Germany to recognize how little many of us have interrogated our own assumptions about the Third Reich. To be sure, we have recognized that Nazi ideology was more porous and multifaceted than a mere focus on “blood and soil.” We have argued that antisemitism was as much about Jews’ supposed political, econ…
American Lynching in the Nazi Imagination: Race and Extra-Legal Violence in 1930s Germany
This article focuses on the Nazi perception and exploitation of American lynching in the prewar Third Reich. It explores how National Socialist policymakers and writers addressed violence within their own society by exploring racial persecution in the United States. In particular, they drew attention to mob violence and the spectacle murders of African Americans. How, they asked, could Germany build a racially pure society absent the alleged lawl…
James Q. Whitman. Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
The Nazis were obsessed with the United States. They were intrigued by the supposed crassness of American mass culture and the deficiencies of democracy, and they paid particular attention to race and racism. As recent scholarship has shown, both party ideologues and scholars in the Third Reich considered the treatment of African Americans and Jews in the U.S., and they were in regular conversation with American eugenicists, who pioneered the for…
In Search of “Aryan Blood.” Serology in Interwar and National Socialist Germany by Rachel E. Boaz
"In Search of “Aryan Blood.” Serology in Interwar and National Socialist Germany by Rachel E. Boaz." Canadian Journal of History, 48(1), pp. 153–154
National Socialism and Consumption
Many important works in the field of consumer studies focus on the United States and post-World War II Western Europe, with the former often cast as the paradigmatic example of consumer society. Notwithstanding the disruptions of the Great Depression and less-severe business cycles, these societies offer plentiful images of bustling stores, widening economic opportunities, and the emergence of politicized citizen-consumers. The unique violence of…
Creating the Nazi Marketplace: Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they promised to build a vibrant consumer society. But they faced a dilemma. They recognized that consolidating support for the regime required providing Germans with the products they desired. At the same time, the Nazis worried about the degrading cultural effects of mass consumption and its association with 'Jewish' interests. This book examines how both the state and private companies sought to overcome t…
Service Above Self? Rotary Clubs, National Socialism, and Transnational Memory in the 1960s and 1970s
In the 1960s and 1970s two controversies forced Rotary clubs to address the issue of complicity during the Holocaust. One emerged from a West German Rotarian's attempts to publish an honest account of his organization's concessions to National Socialism in the 1930s. The second ensued upon the nomination of an Austrian former Nazi to the Rotary International presidency. Both events unleashed intense discussions in the United States and elsewhere,…
The Modern Guild: Rotary Clubs and Bourgeois Renewal in the Aftermath of National Socialism
The Modern Guild: Rotary Clubs and Bourgeois Renewal in the Aftermath of National Socialism
Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth-Century Germany
The sheer intensity and violence of Germany’s twentieth century—through the end of an empire, two world wars, two democracies, and two dictatorships—provide a unique opportunity to assess the power and endurance of commercial imagery in the most extreme circumstances. Selling Modernity places advertising and advertisements in this tumultuous historical setting, exploring such themes as the relationship between advertising and propaganda in Nazi G…
West German Industry & the Challenge of the Nazi past, 1945-1955
Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich
Munich, notorious in recent history as the capital of the Nazi movement, is the site of Gavriel Rosenfeld's stimulating inquiry into the German collective memory of the Third Reich. Rosenfeld shows, with the aid of a wealth of photographs, how the city's urban form developed after 1945 in direct reflection of its inhabitants' evolving memory of the Second World War and the Nazi dictatorship. In the second half of the twentieth century, the German…
Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust
The major essays of Dan Diner, who is widely read and quoted in Germany and Israel, are finally collected in an English edition. They reflect the author's belief that the Holocaust transcends traditional patterns of historical understanding and requires an epistemologically distinct approach. One can no longer assume that actors as well as historians are operating in the same conceptual universe, sharing the same criteria of rational discourse. T…
The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews: The Expropriation of Jewish-Owned Property
Stiften gehen: NS-Zwangsarbeit und Entschädigungsdebatte
Journal Article Stiften gehen: NS‐Zwangsarbeit und Entschädigungsdebatte Get access S. Jonathan Wiesen S. Jonathan Wiesen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 16, Issue 3, Winter 2002, Pages 440–444, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/16.3.440 Published: 01 January 2002
Späte Abrechnung: Über Zwangsarbeiter, Schlußstriche und Berliner Verständigungen
1Southern Illinois University Carbondale Späte Abrechnung: Über Zwangsarbeiter, Schlußstriche und Berliner Verständigungen MatthiasArning FrankfurtFischer Taschenbuch 2001180€9.90
Coming to Terms with the Worker: West German Industry, Labour Relations and the Idea of America, 1949–60
This article situates industrialists in an ongoing discussion about the ‘Americanization’ of West Germany by focusing on business leaders' interest in public relations and human relations during the l950s. It portrays industrialists' adoption of putatively ‘American’ techniques of publicity and factory relations as an attempt to make peace with workers, while simultaneously overcoming a legitimacy crisis born of their complicity in nazi crimes. D…
Daimler Benz in the Third Reich
Overcoming Nazism: Big Business, Public Relations, and the Politics of Memory, 1945–50
In 1973 Yad Vashem, the international organization commemorating Holocaust martyrs and heroes, extended its highest honors to one of Germany's most influential business leaders. Berthold Beitz, head of the Krupp Foundation in Essen, was declared one of “the righteous among the nations” and was inducted into a very small group of individuals who had risked their lives to rescue Jews during the Third Reich. As a young manager in German-occupied Gal…
Overcoming Nazism: Big Business, Public Relations, and the Politics of Memory, 1945–50
In 1973 Yad Vashem, the international organization commemorating Holocaust martyrs and heroes, extended its highest honors to one of Germany's most influential business leaders. Berthold Beitz, head of the Krupp Foundation in Essen, was declared one of “the righteous among the nations” and was inducted into a very small group of individuals who had risked their lives to rescue Jews during the Third Reich. As a young manager in German-occupied Gal…
Overcoming Nazism: Big Business, Public Relations, and the Politics of Memory, 1945–50
In 1973 Yad Vashem, the international organization commemorating Holocaust martyrs and heroes, extended its highest honors to one of Germany's most influential business leaders. Berthold Beitz, head of the Krupp Foundation in Essen, was declared one of “the righteous among the nations” and was inducted into a very small group of individuals who had risked their lives to rescue Jews during the Third Reich. As a young manager in German-occupied Gal…
Daimler Benz in the Third Reich
Coming to Terms with the Worker: West German Industry, Labour Relations and the Idea of America, 1949–60
This article situates industrialists in an ongoing discussion about the ‘Americanization’ of West Germany by focusing on business leaders' interest in public relations and human relations during the l950s. It portrays industrialists' adoption of putatively ‘American’ techniques of publicity and factory relations as an attempt to make peace with workers, while simultaneously overcoming a legitimacy crisis born of their complicity in nazi crimes. D…
Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich
Munich, notorious in recent history as the capital of the Nazi movement, is the site of Gavriel Rosenfeld's stimulating inquiry into the German collective memory of the Third Reich. Rosenfeld shows, with the aid of a wealth of photographs, how the city's urban form developed after 1945 in direct reflection of its inhabitants' evolving memory of the Second World War and the Nazi dictatorship. In the second half of the twentieth century, the German…
Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust
The major essays of Dan Diner, who is widely read and quoted in Germany and Israel, are finally collected in an English edition. They reflect the author's belief that the Holocaust transcends traditional patterns of historical understanding and requires an epistemologically distinct approach. One can no longer assume that actors as well as historians are operating in the same conceptual universe, sharing the same criteria of rational discourse. T…
The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews: The Expropriation of Jewish-Owned Property
Stiften gehen: NS-Zwangsarbeit und Entschädigungsdebatte
Journal Article Stiften gehen: NS‐Zwangsarbeit und Entschädigungsdebatte Get access S. Jonathan Wiesen S. Jonathan Wiesen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 16, Issue 3, Winter 2002, Pages 440–444, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/16.3.440 Published: 01 January 2002
Späte Abrechnung: Über Zwangsarbeiter, Schlußstriche und Berliner Verständigungen
1Southern Illinois University Carbondale Späte Abrechnung: Über Zwangsarbeiter, Schlußstriche und Berliner Verständigungen MatthiasArning FrankfurtFischer Taschenbuch 2001180€9.90
West German Industry & the Challenge of the Nazi past, 1945-1955
The Modern Guild: Rotary Clubs and Bourgeois Renewal in the Aftermath of National Socialism
The Modern Guild: Rotary Clubs and Bourgeois Renewal in the Aftermath of National Socialism
Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth-Century Germany
The sheer intensity and violence of Germany’s twentieth century—through the end of an empire, two world wars, two democracies, and two dictatorships—provide a unique opportunity to assess the power and endurance of commercial imagery in the most extreme circumstances. Selling Modernity places advertising and advertisements in this tumultuous historical setting, exploring such themes as the relationship between advertising and propaganda in Nazi G…
Service Above Self? Rotary Clubs, National Socialism, and Transnational Memory in the 1960s and 1970s
In the 1960s and 1970s two controversies forced Rotary clubs to address the issue of complicity during the Holocaust. One emerged from a West German Rotarian's attempts to publish an honest account of his organization's concessions to National Socialism in the 1930s. The second ensued upon the nomination of an Austrian former Nazi to the Rotary International presidency. Both events unleashed intense discussions in the United States and elsewhere,…
Creating the Nazi Marketplace: Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they promised to build a vibrant consumer society. But they faced a dilemma. They recognized that consolidating support for the regime required providing Germans with the products they desired. At the same time, the Nazis worried about the degrading cultural effects of mass consumption and its association with 'Jewish' interests. This book examines how both the state and private companies sought to overcome t…
National Socialism and Consumption
Many important works in the field of consumer studies focus on the United States and post-World War II Western Europe, with the former often cast as the paradigmatic example of consumer society. Notwithstanding the disruptions of the Great Depression and less-severe business cycles, these societies offer plentiful images of bustling stores, widening economic opportunities, and the emergence of politicized citizen-consumers. The unique violence of…
In Search of “Aryan Blood.” Serology in Interwar and National Socialist Germany by Rachel E. Boaz
"In Search of “Aryan Blood.” Serology in Interwar and National Socialist Germany by Rachel E. Boaz." Canadian Journal of History, 48(1), pp. 153–154
American Lynching in the Nazi Imagination: Race and Extra-Legal Violence in 1930s Germany
This article focuses on the Nazi perception and exploitation of American lynching in the prewar Third Reich. It explores how National Socialist policymakers and writers addressed violence within their own society by exploring racial persecution in the United States. In particular, they drew attention to mob violence and the spectacle murders of African Americans. How, they asked, could Germany build a racially pure society absent the alleged lawl…
James Q. Whitman. Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
The Nazis were obsessed with the United States. They were intrigued by the supposed crassness of American mass culture and the deficiencies of democracy, and they paid particular attention to race and racism. As recent scholarship has shown, both party ideologues and scholars in the Third Reich considered the treatment of African Americans and Jews in the U.S., and they were in regular conversation with American eugenicists, who pioneered the for…
Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany Devin O. Pendas, Mark Roseman, and Richard F. Wetzell
One of the signs of a great work of revisionism is that a reader takes its arguments personally. This splendid book compels historians of Nazi Germany to recognize how little many of us have interrogated our own assumptions about the Third Reich. To be sure, we have recognized that Nazi ideology was more porous and multifaceted than a mere focus on “blood and soil.” We have argued that antisemitism was as much about Jews’ supposed political, econ…
W illeke S andler . Empire in the Heimat: Colonialism and Public Culture in the Third Reich
Willeke Sandler’s study Empire in the Heimat: Colonialism and Public Culture in the Third Reich appears at a moment when scholars are delving deeply into Germany’s colonial past. They have studied the lives both of colonized people in former German territories in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific and of colonial subjects within Germany. They have interrogated the continuities between German imperialism and the Third Reich, focusing on the genocide of…
A Reusable Past: The Meaning of the Third Reich in Recent U.S. Discourse
It does not require great powers of observation to note the pervasiveness of Nazi Germany in contemporary U.S. cultural and political discourse. For better or worse, the discursive landscape is saturated with depictions of and references to Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Gestapo—an obsession visible everywhere, from the progressive left to the far right, from TV shows to Twitter feeds to video games. The allure of using the Third Reich as a rheto…
Profits and Persecution: German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust
Political science (17 works) · European history and politics (15 works) · Nazism (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · History (10 works) · Nazi Germany (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · German (8 works) · German History and Society (8 works)