Prison Elite: How Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg Survived Nazi Captivity By Erika Rummel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. Pp. 224. Paperback $27.95. ISBN: 978-1487527587.
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an overwhelming source base. The book’s focus on dysfunctionality may leave novice readers wondering what the HJ did accomplish and to what extent specific constituencies were taken in by the propaganda. Also unclear is the reasoning behind Postert’s choice of examples. While they demonstrate widespread shortcomings, might a more systematic approach complicate the narrative of organizational failure? Such questions notwithstanding, Die Hitlerjugend is a rich and eminently readable study and clearly animates the scholarly consensus that lived experience resists both structural confines and propagandists’ reductionism. This message seems particularly salient in the current age, as extremists again strive to oversimplify multifaceted realities.
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Central European History offers articles, review essays, and book reviews that range widely through the history of Germany, Austria, and other German-speaking regions of Central Europe from the medieval era to the present. All topics and approaches to history are welcome, whether cultural, social, political, diplomatic, intellectual, economic, and military history, as well as historiography and methodology. Contributions that treat new fields, such as post-1945 and post-1989 history, maturing fields such as gender history, and less-represented fields such as medieval history and the history of the Habsburg lands are especially desired. The journal thus aims to be the primary venue for scholarly exchange and debate among scholars of the history of Central Europe.
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