RUI: Compliance with and Opposition to Totalitarianism

这项拨款调查普通公民如何通过使用恐怖手段来反对和/或配合极权主义国家对社会的控制。具体来说，该项目侧重于普通德国公民在与纳粹德国运作的恐怖制度作斗争和服从方面所发挥的作用。该报告基于对德国三个城市数千份此前未经审查的逮捕和法庭记录进行严格的定量和定性审查。对这些数据的分析可以区分哪些人支持纳粹主义，哪些人不支持纳粹主义。此外，它将允许实证分析盖世太保领导的恐怖体系是否以及如何依赖普通公民来成功消除对纳粹政权的潜在集体抵抗。除了填补了关于普通公民如何回应和与这一恐怖体系互动的重要经验空白之外，它还为调查犯罪政治化和司法作为社会控制工具提供了一个一般模型。此外，这个模型将广泛适用于对极权主义社会及其维持和内部动态崩溃感兴趣的学者。

This grant investigates how ordinary citizens act against and/or in accord with totalitarian states imposing societal control through the use of terror. Specifically, the project focuses on the role that ordinary German citizens played in struggling against and complying with the system of terror that operated in Nazi Germany. It is based on rigorous quantitative and qualitative examination of thousands of previously unexamined arrest and court records in three German cities. Analysis of these data enables differentiation between which types of people supported Nazism and which did not. Further, it will allow for empirical analysis of whether and how the Gestapo-led system of terror was dependent on ordinary citizens for its success in stamping out potential collective resistence to the Nazi regime. In addition to filling in an important empirical gap on how ordinary citizens responded to and interacted with this system of terror, it provides a general model for investigating the politicization of crime and the judiciary as an instrument of social control. Also, this model will have wide relevance to scholars interested in totalitarian societies, their maintenance, and their breakdown as an internal dynamic.