The Nazis' March to Chaos

Autorentext
ROGER BEAUMONT is Professor of History at Texas A&M University. He is author of Military Elites: Special Fighting Units in the Modern World, Sword of the Raj: The British Army in India, 1747-1947, and The Nerves of War, a short history of command and control. His numerous articles have appeared in publications such as Journal of Contemporary History, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Signal, Royal United Services Institute Journal and Military Affairs. Dr. Beaumont is cofounder and North American editor of the journal Defense Analysis.

Klappentext
Rather than a technical treatise based on equations, this study of the Hitler era in Germany from the standpoint of chaos-complexity theory is a narrative history based on a non-linear perspective. After defining basic chaos-complexity concepts and terms, like sensitivity to initial conditions and fractals, the book explores the Third Reich as a chaotic system; the clash between the image of Nazi technical prowess and the anti-modernism in National Socialist ideology; and German and Nazi military tactics and doctrine as ways of coping with the chaos of war and imposing it upon the enemy. Beaumont also looks at attempts to instill the arrogance and rage of the Nazi Party's brown-shirted storm troops into the Wehrmacht through the National Socialist Leadership Officer program, the Nazi Commissars. What were the intricate causal roots of the Endloesung or Final Solution? Why did the Allies refuse to mount a direct attack on the Nazi infrastructure responsible for the Holocaust? The study concludes with a discussion of paradoxes and implications, considering such questions as whether Nazism was a form of chaos, in the theoretical sense of its being a degree of order within apparently random turbulence, or a kind of recurring pathology, as well as whether social and historical processes are tractable to chaos-complexity-based analyses.

Zusammenfassung
Beaumont also looks at attempts to instill the arrogance and rage of the Nazi Party's brown-shirted storm troops into the Wehrmacht through the National Socialist Leadership Officer program, the Nazi Commissars. What were the intricate causal roots of the Endloesung or Final Solution?

Inhalt
Preface Chaos-Complexity and History: Perspectives and Paradoxes The Third Reich as a Dialogue of Chaos and Order Facades Over Chaos: The Mystique of Nazi Technology Riding the Tide of Chaos: Auftragstaktik and the Law of the Situation Chaos versus Chaos: The Nationalsocialistiche Fuehrungsoffizier (NSFO) Program Grisly Fractals: Tracing the Holocaust's Roots and Branches Chaos versus Chaos II: Using Military Power Against the Holocaust Searching for Patterns in the Murk

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