Kathrin Koll | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

Text in German. Using the subject of the "Hitler Youth", an originally National Socialist mass organization, Kathrin Kollmeier analyzes the order of the "Volksgemeinschaft" as the fundamental structure of National Socialist society. The paradoxical figure of a comprehensive and at the same time sharply demarcated, ethnic, national and racist "Volksgemeinschaft" provoked a tension between mass integration and purposeful exclusion, which shaped the social reality in the German Reich. Kollmeier combines theoretical interest in the dynamics of this process of order with an empirical micro-study on the disciplinary system of the youth association and thus illustrates the constitutive precision mechanics of National Socialist rule. The disciplinary policy of the "Hitler Youth" shows the prerequisites and consequences of the order procedure of social and political inclusion and exclusion. The establishment of this legal disciplinary system, which contained its own statutes, organs and courts, was closely linked to contemporary legal discourses. Kathrin Kollmeier takes a closer look at three areas: youth law, the National Socialist movement for a fundamental "renewal of the law" and the "concrete orderly thinking", which Carl Schmitt formulated as an example. It combines historical methods with legal theoretical considerations and legal norms and analyzes the micro-techniques of recording, surveillance and punishment as well as individual case studies of youthful deviance. Ideological prerequisites and political and disciplinary practice are considered in their interaction.