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Austrian Lives

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Günter Bischof
, 
Fritz Plasser
, 
Eva Maltschnig

Political lives

From the Habsburg Empire to the Third Reich Arthur Seyß-Inquart and National Socialism

Johannes Koll

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Biographical research and National Socialism

During the past two decades, biographical research connected with National Socialism abounded.2 This boom is the more remarkable since especially in the German-speaking academic world biographies were long regarded with suspicion. Due to their characteristic focus on individual lives, they were considered of no great use for the analysis of historical structures and general developments of the past — unlike quantitative social history and structural history which were held in high esteem from the 1960s well into the 1980s.3 Especially among contemporary historians the conviction was widely shared that biographies were not capable of procuring solid scholarly contributions to the understanding and interpretation of historical processes like the emergence and growth of fascism and their significance for modernity. Interest in biographical research came back in the wake of the “cultural turn” and the ascent of “history from below” and oral hi...

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