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Triumph of Diversity: A New Look at Hitler's Armed Forces
Triumph of Diversity A New Look at Hitler's Armed Forces Author:Veronica Clark This is the historiography-focused companion book (174 pp.) of Veronica Clark's first book "Black Nazis! A Study of Racial Ambivalence in Nazi Germany's Military Establishment: Non-German Ethnic Minority and Foreign Volunteers, Conscripts, Laborers and POWs, 1940 - 1945". This study explains how and why Hitler's armed forces became the most dive... more »rse in Western history, as well as how the concept of diversity overcame that of German racism. Clark explains this paradoxical paradigm shift, which was a direct result of the Nazis' war effort.
Overview
A triumph for diversity. This summation of Nazi Germany's armed forces is sure to raise controversy, but that is because so few historians have actually taken time to investigate non-German sources, narratives, and first-hand accounts. Indeed, while this may be difficult for many historians to accept, it is nevertheless an accurate account of what happened in the Greater German Reich.
Even though the Germans initiated their war with a racist doctrine in mind, one that sought to create a new order for Europe with Germany at the center and German elites at the top of the European political and racial spectrum, the Germans had to scrap this racial doctrine for a policy that promoted internationalism and tolerated multicultural and interethnic cooperation and intimate relations. The Nazis accepted and even promoted diversity; they realized they needed help and could not accomplish what they needed to on their own. They learned to truly respect the qualities of non-Germans.
Veronica Clark has done what few historians have. She has reassessed the Third Reich's racial policies and attitudes from an entirely new perspective, one that will advance critical study into the multiracial, multicultural nature of the Third Reich. This is the "new" new history of the Third Reich.« less