Krise und Trauma

Zur Psychosoziologie kollektiver Gewalt im Nationalsozialismus

By (author) Hans-Christian Harten

Book cover: Krise und Trauma

Extent: 549 pages

Publisher: Brill | Schöningh

Subjects: Social Sciences , Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(July 2025)

ISBN: 9783506797971

6.1 x 9.25 inches

Price: $92.00

Out of stock

Military defeat, revolution, Versailles, economic crises this accumulation of negative experiences was traumatic for many contemporaries. The National Socialists seemed to offer a resolution by promising to make Germany strong again. But instead of confronting reality, they constructed irrational myths and paranoid images of enemies, which unleashed fantasies of omnipotence and annihilation.


Military defeat, revolution, Versailles, economic crises – this accumulation of negative experiences was traumatic for many contemporaries. The National Socialists seemed to offer a resolution by promising to make Germany strong again. But instead of confronting reality, they constructed irrational myths and paranoid images of enemies, which unleashed fantasies of omnipotence and annihilation.

  • By (author) Hans-Christian Harten