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A history of the Münster Anabaptists : inner emigration and the Third Reich : a critical edition of Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's Bockelson : a tale of mass insanity / translated and edited by George B. von der Lippe and Viktoria M. Reck-Malleczewen.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reck-Malleczewen, Viktoria M.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Anabaptists.
- Germany--Church history--16th century.
- Germany.
- Church history.
- Reck-Malleczewen, Fritz Percy, 1884-1945. Bockelson.
- Reck-Malleczewen, Fritz Percy.
- Beukelszoon, Jan, 1509-1536.
- Beukelszoon, Jan.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Summary:
- Presented here for the first time in English, Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's Bockelson: A Tale of Mass Insanity is one of the defining works of Germany's "Inner Emigration" literary movement, which arose in response to the Nazi regime. First published in 1937, Reck-Malleczewen's book is a bitter literary protest against Hitler and the Third Reich disguised as a historical novel about the tragedy of the sixteenth-century Anabaptist uprising in Munster, and it appropriates the historical figure Jan Bockelson-the charismatic, manipulative, and deadly "King of the Anabaptists"-as a thinly disguised stand-in for Adolf Hitler. The author's scathing depiction of state-sanctioned terror and violence not only offers a metaphorical portrait of prewar Germany, but also predicts the catastrophic end of the Third Reich. This critical edition includes scholarly commentary, detailed annotations, and an essay from Reck-Malleczewen's daughter.
- Contents:
- Translator's preface
- Conservative opposition: Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's antifascist novel Bockelson : a history of mass hysteria / Karl-Heinz Schoeps
- The last Sunday / Victoria M. Reck-Malleczwen
- Prologue (Prologus)
- The beginning of the tragedy (Incipit tragoedia)
- The city of God (Urbs Dei)
- The sword (Gladius)
- The last whore (Deterrima cunnus)
- King of the sewer (Rex cacans)
- Desperate hope (Spes desperata)
- Starvation (Fames)
- Day of wrath (Dies irae)
- Lest I be burned in eternal fire (Ne perenni cremer igni).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-189) and index.
- "Anabaptist bibliography": pages [191]-197.
- "Inner emigration bibliography": pages [199]-207.
- ISBN:
- 0230605478
- 9780230605473
- OCLC:
- 176926068
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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