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History and Responsibility: On the Debates on the Shōwa History

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Mass Dictatorship and Memory as Ever Present Past

Part of the book series: Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century ((MASSD))

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I asked myself: How many times do I have to explain that it is not kokka shakai-shugi (Socialism of the State) but kokumin shakai-shugi (Socialism of the Nation) that is the proper and more appropriate rendering of National Socialism?

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Notes

  1. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Ralph Manheim trans. (New York: The Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999), p. 393.

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  2. Such an attempt can be found in Yasushi Yamanouchi, J. Victor Koschmann and Ryflichi Narita (eds), Total War and ‘Modernisation’ (Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Program, 1998).

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  1. Naoki Sakai
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea

    Jie-Hyun Lim (Professor of History and Director) (Professor of History and Director)

  2. History Department, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    Barbara Walker (Associate Professor of History) (Associate Professor of History)

  3. Aberystwyth University, UK

    Peter Lambert (Lecturer in Modern European History) (Lecturer in Modern European History)

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Sakai, N. (2014). History and Responsibility: On the Debates on the Shōwa History. In: Lim, JH., Walker, B., Lambert, P. (eds) Mass Dictatorship and Memory as Ever Present Past. Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137289834_6

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137289834_6

  • Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London

  • Print ISBN: 978-1-349-45031-2

  • Online ISBN: 978-1-137-28983-4

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