Nations Apart : Czech nationalism and authoritarian welfare under Nazi rule / Radka Šustrová.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Šustrová, Radka, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--Czechoslovakia.

Public welfare.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 349 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Nations Apart tells a provocative new story about the Nazi occupation of the Bohemian lands during the Second World War. The dismemberment of Czechoslovakia after the 1938 Munich Agreement is typically recalled in Czech historical memory as the beginning of a period of humiliation, occupation, and resistance. Against this narrative of victimhood, this monograph argues that the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia witnessed the unexpected expansion of the Czech welfare state, contributing in turn to the stability of Nazi governance. Local nationalisms played a huge role in this process. Through extensive research in Czech, German, and Swiss archives, Nations Apart demonstrates that ethnically exclusive Czech national ideology dominated politics and everyday life after Munich and during Nazi rule. Illustrating similarities between the wartime 'Protectorate' and the occupation regimes in Western Europe, the monograph sheds new light on occupied societies during the Second World War and on the origins of welfare states in post-war Europe.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Series information

Title page

Copyright information

Table of contents

List of Illustrations

List of tables

Acknowledgments

Notes on Text and Transliteration

Abbreviations

Maps

Introduction

Nazi supervision and occupied societies

Nations and national welfare

Chapters and sources

1 Social Security during State-Building

Public social insurance

Labour market and unemployment

Health and public hygiene

Beginnings of Nazi social policy in Germany

2 The Autumn Revolution and the Reconstruction of the State and Society

Searching for the meaning of the 'Revolution'

The birth of a concept, the formation of an ideology

Germanisation and nationalisation

National Partnership and the institutionalisation of národní pospolitost

From the national to the working community and solidarity

'Cooperation' as a meaningful act

3 Community-Building through Authoritarian Welfare

The Munich crisis as a catalyst of change

The quest for power and social stabilisation

Structures of social policy

Central public authorities

Social insurance companies

Indigent and voluntary care bodies

Workers' care

Reich social policy institutions

Instruments of social protection

Social policy as an instrument of exclusion

4 Towards Workfare Communities

Concepts and practice

'Working for the nation'

The distribution of the workforce

The regulation of wages and salaries

Working women

'guardians of the national property'

Occupational safety and accident insurance

From work to retirement and back: old-age and disability insurance

Experts and institutionalised labour science

5 Health Care in Warfare

Concepts and practices

The rebuilding of public health care

Health insurance and health care

War measures and civil solidarity. Patient discipline

Combating contagious diseases

Health care for prioritised population groups

Czech workers

Czech children and youth

Care for insured Reich citizens

Two examples of expertise: occupational medicine, social genetics and eugenics

6 Family Policies for Segregated Nations

The predicament of mixed marriages

Population growth of the 'Czech nation'

Regulated births: midwifery and counselling

Public care for mother and child

On the edge of social deprivation? Social relief programmes

Population experts on growth and quality

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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