RUI: Compliance with and Opposition to Totalitarianism

这项补助金调查普通公民如何反对和/或 与实行社会控制的极权主义国家雅阁 通过使用恐怖。 具体而言，该项目侧重于 普通德国公民在反对纳粹的斗争中所扮演的角色 并遵守在纳粹时期运作的恐怖体系 德国。 它是基于严格的定量和定性 对数千名以前未经审查的逮捕和法庭审判的审查 德国三个城市的纪录。 通过分析这些数据， 区分哪些类型的人支持纳粹主义， 但事实并非如此。 此外，它将允许对以下方面进行实证分析： 盖世太保领导的恐怖系统是否以及如何依赖于 普通公民，因为它成功地消除了潜在的 对纳粹政权的集体抵抗 除了填补一个重要的经验空白， 普通公民对这一制度作出反应并与之互动， 恐怖，它提供了一个一般的模式，调查 犯罪政治化和司法机关作为 社会控制 此外，该模型将具有广泛的相关性， 对极权主义社会及其维持感兴趣的学者 以及它们作为内部动力的崩溃。

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.