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A SCHICKSALSGEMEINSCHAFT? ALLIED BOMBING, CIVILIAN MORALE, AND SOCIAL DISSOLUTION IN NUREMBERG, 1942–1945

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2001

NEIL GREGOR
NEIL GREGOR
Affiliation:
University of Southampton
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Abstract

This article examines the impact on German urban society of the allied air raids during the Second World War. It rejects the oft-made assertion that the bombing strengthened the ‘community of fate’ on the German home front, arguing that this is an invention of Nazi propaganda which has been absorbed uncritically by subsequent scholars. Instead, it contends that the bombing brought to the surface many social and cultural tensions within German society and led to a widespread process of atomization and dissolution of community ties. The local authorities were quickly overwhelmed by the scale of the bombing and Nazi party propaganda singularly failed to have any impact on the population.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Historical Journal , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , December 2000 , pp. 1051 - 1070
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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