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In Perfect Formation: SS Ideology and the SS-Junkerschule-Tolz
In Perfect Formation offers a unique analytical investigation of the ideology and training institution that defined the education and training program for SS officers. Author Jay Hatheway, who during the 1970s was stationed at Flint Kaserne, Bavaria, the former SS-Junkerschule Tölz, includes extensive references to original source material on the underlying SS principles of blood, soil, and struggle as they were formalized in SS ideology. In support of his intricate linkages between ideology and its realized form, Hatheway has obtained over 90 previously unpublished photos of the SS officer training academy Tölz. More than a series of buildings, the structure of the Junkerschule was itself a metaphor for the subset of Nazi ideology that was developed by Himmler, Darré and others to create a racially pure vanguard to lead Germany on its path toward Teutonic regeneration.
192 pages, Hardcover
First published February 1, 1999
About the author
Jay Hatheway
4 books1 followerProfessor of History at Edgewood College, Madison, WI, and author of books on gays and the German SS, or Schutzstaffel.
Background:
Grew up in oil fields of Iran; went to high school in Rome, Italy; 4 year ROTC scholarship to Claremont Men's (now: McKenna) College, then commissioned lieutenant in US Army, assigned to 10th Special Forces Detachment (Airborne), Europe as, first, executive officer of operational detachment and, second, as unit BN intelligence officer. Came out in service, court-martialed, and filed first constitutional challenge to federal sodomy statute in 1975. Took interest in history of Iran, Italy, and Germany serious enough to earn doctorate in the subject, and became a life-long educator.
Accomplishments
BA, Claremont McKenna College; MA in International Studies-German from the Monterey Institute of International Studies; PhD from the University of Wisconsin;
Associate Professor of History and Chair, Edgewood College, Madison, WI; Editor & Publisher, Among Friends: A Journal for Rural Gays and Lesbians, 1983-1990; Wisconsin Governor's HIV Infection Task Force, 1987-1990; Book Author: 1) In Perfect Formation: SS Ideology and the SS Junkerschule-Tolz, 1999; 2) Guilty as Charged: The True Story of a Gay Beret, 2001; 3) Gilded Age Construction of Modern American Homophobia, St. Martin's Press/Palgrave, 2003; 4) Pursuit of Perfection in the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992. 2002 University of Wisconsin Distinguished Alumnus Awardee; Winner, Digital Literature Institute's 2002 Independent e-Book Award in the category of memoir for the book, Guilty as Charged.
Additional Information
Testified in 1993 before Congress on "Don't Ask, don't tell." Academic specialty is the Nazi Party, but is also focused on gay history, and American foreign policy.
Background:
Grew up in oil fields of Iran; went to high school in Rome, Italy; 4 year ROTC scholarship to Claremont Men's (now: McKenna) College, then commissioned lieutenant in US Army, assigned to 10th Special Forces Detachment (Airborne), Europe as, first, executive officer of operational detachment and, second, as unit BN intelligence officer. Came out in service, court-martialed, and filed first constitutional challenge to federal sodomy statute in 1975. Took interest in history of Iran, Italy, and Germany serious enough to earn doctorate in the subject, and became a life-long educator.
Accomplishments
BA, Claremont McKenna College; MA in International Studies-German from the Monterey Institute of International Studies; PhD from the University of Wisconsin;
Associate Professor of History and Chair, Edgewood College, Madison, WI; Editor & Publisher, Among Friends: A Journal for Rural Gays and Lesbians, 1983-1990; Wisconsin Governor's HIV Infection Task Force, 1987-1990; Book Author: 1) In Perfect Formation: SS Ideology and the SS Junkerschule-Tolz, 1999; 2) Guilty as Charged: The True Story of a Gay Beret, 2001; 3) Gilded Age Construction of Modern American Homophobia, St. Martin's Press/Palgrave, 2003; 4) Pursuit of Perfection in the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992. 2002 University of Wisconsin Distinguished Alumnus Awardee; Winner, Digital Literature Institute's 2002 Independent e-Book Award in the category of memoir for the book, Guilty as Charged.
Additional Information
Testified in 1993 before Congress on "Don't Ask, don't tell." Academic specialty is the Nazi Party, but is also focused on gay history, and American foreign policy.
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May 25, 2017
Weird, weird, weird dark shit, yet all carefully footnoted and documented and from a respected source.
Well done, but I was glad it was only 130pp. I highly recommend it if you wish to learn about the ideology of the Waffen SS and the Nazis, particularly the religiosity and long term dreams and racial thinking of the group.
Well done, but I was glad it was only 130pp. I highly recommend it if you wish to learn about the ideology of the Waffen SS and the Nazis, particularly the religiosity and long term dreams and racial thinking of the group.
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