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Introduction: Masculinity and the Third Reich

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Thomas Kühne
Thomas Kühne*
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Central European History , Volume 51 , Special Issue 3: Masculinity and the Third Reich , September 2018 , pp. 354 - 366
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I would like to express my deep gratitude to Andrew I. Port for his superior guidance in putting together this special issue and for his superb editing of my and all the other articles.

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2 Influential monographs and anthologies in sociology include Brod, Harry, ed., The Making of Masculinities: The New Men's Studies (Boston, MA: Allen & Unwin, 1987)Google Scholar; Brod, Harry and Kaufman, Michael, eds., Theorizing Masculinities (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994)Google Scholar; in anthropology, see Gilmore, David D., Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990)Google Scholar; Herdt, Gilbert H., Guardians of the Flutes: Idioms of Masculinity (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1981)Google Scholar; in literary studies, see Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985)Google Scholar; in history, see Stearns, Peter N., Be a Man! Males in Modern Societies (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1979)Google Scholar; Mangan, J. A. and Walvon, James, eds., Manliness and Morality: Middle-class manliness in Britain and America, 1800–1940 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987)Google Scholar; Roper, Michael and Tosh, John, eds., Manful Assertions: Masculinities in Britain since 1800 (London: Routledge, 1991)Google Scholar.

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15 Interest in the topic was spurred by the essayistic assessments by Mosse, George L., Fallen Soldiers: Shaping the Memory of the World Wars (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990)Google Scholar; idem, The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

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31 Magnus Koch, “Männlichkeit und Verweigerung. Deserteure der Wehrmacht aus geschlechtergeschichtlicher Perspektive,” in Dietrich and Heise, Männlichkeitskonstruktionen im Nationalsozialismus, 83–98; idem, Fahnenfluchten. Deserteure der Wehrmacht im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2008). See also Fritsche, Maria, “Proving One's Manliness: Masculine Self-perceptions of Austrian Deserters in the Second World War,” Gender & History, 24, no. 1 (2012): 35–55CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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33 Wünschmann, Kim, Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; idem, “Männlichkeitskonstruktionen jüdischer Häftlinge in NS-Konzentrationslagern”; Dietrich and Heise, Männlichkeitskonstruktionen im Nationalsozialismus, 201–19; Carey, Maddy, Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust: Between Destruction and Construction (London: Bloomsbury, 2017)Google Scholar.

34 Browning, Christopher, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (New York: HarperCollins, 1992)Google Scholar. See also Welzer, Harald, Täter. Wie aus ganz normalen Menschen Massenmörder werden (Frankfurt/Main: S. Fischer, 2005)Google Scholar.

35 Cf. Kühne, Belonging and Genocide, 84–87, and my contribution to this special issue.

36 See the nuanced reflections on the development of Holocaust perpetrator research since 1992 in Christopher Browning, “Twenty-Five Years Later,” in idem, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, rev. ed. (New York: Harper Perennial, 2017), 225–91.

37 For an attempt toward a gendered application, see Stephen R. Haynes, “Ordinary Masculinity: Gender Analysis and Holocaust Scholarship,” in Randall, Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century, 165–88. While Adam Jones in particular has drawn attention to gender selective killings, genocide studies have, more generally, only occasionally deployed the conceptual suggestions of men's studies; see Jones, Adam, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction, 3rd ed. (London: Routledge, 2017), 625–59Google Scholar; Joeden-Forgey, Elisa von, “Gender and Genocide,” in The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies, ed. Bloxham, Donald and Moses, Dirk (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 61–80Google Scholar.

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40 See Michael James Geheran, “Betrayed Comradeship: German-Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler,” PhD thesis, Clark University, 2016. On the historical context, see Baader, Benjamin Maria, Gillerman, Sharon, and Lerner, Paul, eds., Jewish Masculinities: German Jews, Gender, and History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014)Google Scholar.

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42 This question has been paradigmatically discussed with regard to the variety of, and competition among, different masculinities in various Jewish communities, including the American and the Israeli ones. See Imhoff, Sarah, Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Hakak, Yohai, Haredi Masculinities between Yeshiva, the Army, Work and Politics (Leiden: Brill, 2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Nur, Ofer Nordheimer, Eros and Tragedy: Jewish Male Fantasies and the Masculine Revolution of Zionism (Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2014)Google Scholar; Brod, Harry and Zevit, Shawn Israel, eds., Brother Keepers: New Perspectives on Jewish Masculinity (Harrimen, TN: Men's Studies Press, 2010)Google Scholar; Brod, Harry, ed., A Mensch Among Men: Explorations in Jewish Masculinity (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1988)Google Scholar.