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Peter Schöttler, « De l'histoire régionale à l'histoire du peuple nazie ou "la voix inaudible du sang" », Sociétés Contemporaines (documents), ID : 10.3406/socco.2000.1801
PETER SCHÖTTLER From Regional History to Nazi Folk-History -or the rInaudible Voice of Blood” For a long time is has been quite common to distinguish, concerning Word War II, between the German •Wehrmacht”, which was supposed to •know nothing”, and the SS, which committed all the crimes. It also has been supposed that among German historians one could distinguish between a small group of •fanatics” and a vast majority of serious scholars which the nazi regime could never completely •bring into line”. New research is proving this to be a legend. Since the Weimar Republic many historians have committed themselves to serve an aggressive foreign policy, and after Hitler’s rise to power this tendency grew even stronger. Exploring a group of rhenish historians which was involved in research on the historical, ethnic and linguistic borderlines between Germany, France, and Belgium, the article deals with the intellectual participation of academic historians in the imperialistic and racial politics of the nazi regime.