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AbstractThis article analyzes the interplay between Nazi cultural politics and regional identity in the Palatinate region of Germany through the lens of the Ludwig Siebert program. Created by Bavarian Minister-President Ludwig Siebert in the early 1930s to stimulate the regional construction industry, this program involved the conservation of medieval castles and ruins in Bavaria and the Palatinate. The renovation of these monuments, which had been central to the cultural memory and identity of Pfälzers since at least the nineteenth century, proved to be effective in mobilizing the local populace for Siebert's aims and, consequently, for the goals of the Nazi regime. Because its melding of cultural politics and regional identity helped to stabilize the regime in the Palatinate during its early years, the Siebert program provides a particularly illustrative microhistorical case study of the Nazi regime's mechanisms for creating the Volksgemeinschaft in the provinces. By focusing on the Palatinate town of Annweiler, which sits at the foot of the storied Trifels castle, a favored renovation project of Siebert's, this article offers a closely observed demonstration of these mechanisms at work.

Front Matter --Copyright page --Illustrations --Foreword /Gerhard L. Weinberg --Introduction /Jürgen Matthäus and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan --Ordinary Men, Ordinary Women: Perpetrator Research Reconsidered --Ordinary Men and the Women in Their Shadows: Gender Issues in the Holocaust Scholarship of Christopher R. Browning /Doris L. Bergen --"Ordinary Drinkers" and Ordinary "Males"? Alcohol, Masculinity, and Atrocity in the Holocaust /Edward B. Westermann --"Ordinary Christians" in Nazi Germany /Robert P. Ericksen --The Perpetrators of the November 1938 Pogrom through German-Jewish Eyes /Alan E. Steinweis --Contexts of Agency and the Holocaust --Exploitation and Extermination: Jewish Slave Labour on the Baltic Coast, 1941-19431 /T. Fielder Valone --"Palästina-Austausch": Jewish Emigration from Europe to Palestine during the Final Solution /Francis R. Nicosia --More than Helpers: Women's Roles in "Communities of Rescue" in the Bohemian Lands, 1938-1939 /Laura E. Brade --Lutétia: A Luxury Hotel in Paris Meets the Holocaust /Michael R. Marrus --Interpreting Ideology and Social Practice --Nazi Plans for Addressing the Jewish Problem: From "Fringe Irritant" (1929) to the "Machtergreifung" (1933) /Karl A. Schleunes --The Nazi Glorification of Death and Denigration of Suffering /Michael Meng --What Remains of "the Banality of Evil"? /Peter Hayes --The Historian and the Public --The Universalisation of the Holocaust as a Moral Standard /Thomas Pegelow Kaplan --History of Society and Holocaust Research: Thoughts on a Tenuous Relationship /Konrad H. Jarausch --The Three-Legged Antisemitic Stool of Holocaust Denial: Illogic, Wilful Distortions, and Camouflaged Discourse1 /Deborah E. Lipstadt --Police, History, Responsibility: The Impact of Ordinary Men on the Perpetration Debate at German Memorial Sites and in Current Police Training /Thomas Köhler and Christoph Spieker --Sources and Their Readings --The "Euthanasia" Murders Archive: Confronting the New Findings /Dagmar Herzog --Depicting "Ordinary Men": Browning, Goldhagen, and the Historiographic Use of Perpetrator Photographs /Jürgen Matthäus --Unravelling Janowska: Excavating an Understudied Camp through Spatial Testimonies /Waitman Wade Beorn --Particularist and Universalist Interpretations of the Holocaust: A Complex Relationship /Dan Michman --Ordinary Men and Beyond: Reflections on an Historiographical Journey /Christopher R. Browning --Back Matter --List of Publications by Christopher R. Browning --About the Contributors --Index.