...Carol Poore 2006 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2006 Recovering Disability Rights in Weimar Germany Carol Poore Historians writing about disability in twentieth-century Germany, in addition to research about disabled veterans, have devoted the greatest...

...Leesa Rittelmann In 1926 Weimar photographer László Moholy-Nagy predicted that the illiteracy of the future would be ignorance not of reading or writing, but of photography. Five years later theorist Walter Benjamin described the ability to compare facial types via portrait photobooks...

... normative was the Normative State?” he asks, being at once interrogative and accusatory (380). His answer, and the book’s argument, is that it incorporated elements of the prerogative state from the earliest days of the Nazi regime, extending even into the Weimar period. By the 1940s Nazi politics...

... industri- al and agrarian leaders used the economic crisis of the early 1930s RADICALHISTORY REVIEW 32 1985 PAGES75-96 76 RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW to force a dissolution of the democratic constitution and social wel- fare system of the Weimar Republic...

... of the regime, and individual leaders like Gertrud Baumer shifted with apparent ease into propagating Nazi ideas. Koonz portrays very vividly the sense of emergency in the sphere of gender relations inspired by the Weimar social crisis; the war against sexual perversion, falling birth-rates...

... of Weimar Germany. JudithWalkowitz is Profes- sor of history at Rutgers University, and is completing her Iatest project, City of Drendfur Delight. ...

... Copyright September, 1978 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization 1978 Notes on Contributors DAVID ABRAHAM teaches at Princeton University and has written on "Class Con- flict, Class Consciousness and the State in Weimar Germany." JON AMSDEN is a teacher...

... at National University in San Diego. He specializes in modern European social, economic, and political history. He is currently completing articles on the social condition, mentalitk, and politics of unemployed workers in the Ruhr region of Germany dur- ing the Weimar Republic. ...

... in the Federal Republic, but in other respects it diverged. Particular atten- tion was paid to the question of why the Nazi Party could develop into a mass organization, indeed the largest party, in the Weimar state, and which factors finally secured the decisive success of 30 January 1933...

..., Thomas Elsaesser's "Film History and Visual Pleasure: Weimar Cinema," has entered significantly into emerging film historiography discourses; the others, whatever their merits, appeared in various ways too preliminary, too exclusively theoretical, or too brief and specific." The Elsaesser...

... Fruhejahr 1931. Die Volksaktion gegen den Paragraph 218 und gegen paepstliche Enzyklika 'casti cunnubi Zeifschriff feur Geschichtswissenschaft, 19, No. 1 (1971), 213-223. KPD campaign against Papal Encyclical on Christian Marriage and against the Weimar Paragraph 218 criminalizing...

... Poore’s essay revisits the social and political history of Weimar Ger- many and recovers the advocacy work done by disabled political activists and writ- ers. Like sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, who made human rights claims for homo- sexuals and the gender and sexual non-normative in the years prior...

... and West Germans, both terms held substantial power in light of the recent past. Terror was commonly used in the Weimar as well as Nazi periods, in the former most often as a term of abuse and related to street-level acts. This association frightened older...

... Rochberg-Halton. The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Sey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Coyner, Sandra. “Class Consciousness and Consumption: The New Middle Class During the Weimar Republic.“ Journal ofsocial Histmy 10,3 (1977): 310-31. Daumard, Adeline. Les...

... Rochberg-Halton. The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Sey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Coyner, Sandra. “Class Consciousness and Consumption: The New Middle Class During the Weimar Republic.“ Journal ofsocial Histmy 10,3 (1977): 310-31. Daumard, Adeline. Les...

...), certainly before 1914, and probably in the early years of Weimar too. One may accept in general that the party’s inability to mobilize a stable petty-bourgeois and peasant constituency held it back from achieving the much desired majority status while reserving judgement on the SPD’s uneven...

... on politics, ideology and the state rather than on social and eco• nomic developments. The exhaustive debate over the continuities between Weimar and the Nazi era have been phrased largely in political and ideological terms, thereby emphasizing the sharp break between parliamentary democracy...

... of the present? The David Abraham case concerns a young Marxist historian at Princeton, author of The Collapse of the Weimar Republic, who has been the target of an unprecedented vendetta. Two senior scholars have been working overtime and behind the scenes to make sure he never gets another job...

... the swastika in Jellonnek's account were exclusively male. To be sure, lesbianism was not subject to criminal prosecution, but Weimar also witnessed the expansion of a lesbian subculture? Its fate under National Socialism remains virtually unexamined; and Jel- lonnek provides no corrective. Even among...

.... The contrapuntal theme to gender inequality as a crucial ingredi- ent in German recovery is that of women’s resistance. Building on skills acquired under Weimar, and honed in the Nazi period, some women politicians attacked the way in which their male counter- parts were setting family policy...