The objective of this thesis is to trace the shocking career of an individual, who during his lifetime affected the lives of countless millions of people. In the role he achieved and was appointed to by Adolph Hitler, his name and activities will long be remembered and discussed in the annals of recorded history.Such an individual warrants a study of his motives and objectives. Recorded history has generally put its stamp of strong disapproval upon this man. Was he really sincere in his basic convictions or was he trying to foster his own person, or were his energies challenged to make progress for the concepts in which he truly believed? Was this man insane with power and contempt for his enemies, or was his insanity, if indeed he were insane, directed towards meeting some higher and final objective?This thesis will attempt to answer these basic questions and delve into other areas concerning this man's career and his contributions, if any, to the composition and makeup of the society and to the world of the twentieth century.The seeds of Nazism have not completely been eliminated from the world scene. In West Germany, the National Democrat Party still retains many of the operating philosophies of Hitler's Nazism. Recent elections in Bavaria have increased their influence in West German legislative affairs. Heinrich Himmler would have felt completely at home with many of the National Democrats.Here in the United States, the American Nazi Party, headed by George Lincoln Rockwell, operates out of party headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Heinrich Himmler would have felt a close kinship to this controversial group.Indiana in the 1930's also had its contribution to Fascism with the self-styled Nazi organization called the Silver Shirts headed by Dudley Pellet' of Noblesville, Indiana. The Silver Shirts along wit11 the German-American Bund and Fritz Kuhn, cooperated with Nazi Germany prior to the United States entry into World War II.The life and career of Heinrich Himmler of Nazi Germany needs to be carefully studied and evaluated because of the impact he had on so many people in a multitude of ways.

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C’est dans les années 1910 qu’apparut l’expression de lecture publique, qui se popularisa dans les décennies suivantes. Elle désignait alors le service rendu par les bibliothèques publiques, entendues comme bibliothèques ouvertes à tous, qu’elles dépendent de collectivités publiques ou de groupements privés. C’était un nouveau modèle de bibliothèque que défendaient les « modernistes », ces bibliothécaires appelant, à travers leurs discours, à la modernisation des bibliothèques publiques, c’est-à-dire à l’application de mesures propres à organiser la lecture publique et à ouvrir les bibliothèques au plus grand nombre. Pour autant, tous les modernistes n’avaient pas exactement les mêmes motivations ni les mêmes opinions : le développement de la lecture publique n’a pas été aussi linéaire et progressif que l’histoire des bibliothèques a pu le laisser croire. Il importait donc d’étudier comment s’était forgé cet idéal moderniste, quelles en étaient les nuances et les limites, et l’évolution qu’il avait connue de la fin de la Première guerre mondiale à la création de la Direction des bibliothèques et de la lecture publique, à la Libération. Par ailleurs, la définition de la lecture publique était inhérente à la construction de l'identité professionnelle des bibliothécaires, qui s'opérait à cette période. Une grande attention a ainsi été portée aux parcours professionnels des acteurs de la lecture publique, ainsi qu'à leur formation et à leurs réseaux, pour comprendre les diverses influences qui s'exerçaient alors. Ce travail s'appuie sur la littérature professionnelle de l'époque et sur des sources archivistiques nombreuses et variées (archives de l'inspection générale des bibliothèques, de l'Association des bibliothécaires français, de l'Association pour le développement de la lecture publique, archives de bibliothèques municipales, archives privées...). Peu exploitées jusqu'à alors, elles ont permis de renouveler le regard traditionnellement porté sur les débuts de la lecture publique en France. / The phrase « lecture publique » appeared in the 1910's and spread in the following decades. It meant the activity of public libraries, libraries opened to everyone, whichever their legal status. It was a new paradigm for libraries that « modernists » advocated for ; the « modernists » were librarians who demanded public libraries' modernisation, which consisted in organizing the service and opening libraries to the general public. Nevertheless, modernists did not share the same exact motivations nor the same opinions : public libraries development was not so linear and gradual that the history of libraries led to believe. Therefore, it was important to study how this modernist ideal was created, which were its variations and limits, and how it had evolved from the First World War to the creation of the « Direction des bibliothèques et de la lecture publique » in 1945.Furthermore, defining the concept of « lecture publique » was inseparable from the process of professional identity construction which took place at this time. That is why working lives, trainings and networks of active public librarians were closely examined, in order to understand the influences at stake.This work is based on professional literature and varied archival sources (archives of the general inspection of libraries, the Association des bibliothécaires français, the Association pour le développement de la lecture publique, archives of public libraries and librarians...). Barely studied before, they allowed us to change the traditional outlook on the beginnings of modern public libraries in France.

Thèse de doctorat : HISTOIRE : Metz : 1998. / 1998METZ001L. 274 ref.

Cette thèse est une biographie de l’amiral Georges Thierry d’Argenlieu (1889-1964), en religion le père Louis de la Trinité de l’ordre des Carmes déchaux.Entré à l’Ecole navale en 1906, il sert d’abord au Maroc où il rencontre Lyautey, puis en Méditerranée pendant la Grande Guerre. À l’issue du conflit, il quitte la Marine pour entrer au Carmel, aboutissement d’un cheminement débuté avant le conflit. Provincial de son ordre en 1932, ce catholique intransigeant, un temps séduit par les thèses de l’Action française, est l’un des principaux artisans du renouveau connu par l’ordre dans l’entre-deux-guerres. Mobilisé en 1939, il est fait prisonnier lors de la reddition de Cherbourg. Il s’évade et rallie le Royaume-Uni dès la fin juin 1940. De Londres à Dakar et du Gabon à la Nouvelle-Calédonie, il est aux avant-postes de la France Libre. Premier chancelier de l’Ordre de la Libération, ce très proche du général de Gaulle devient un amiral incontournable dans la Marine. En août 1945, il est nommé haut-commissaire de France en Indochine. Son mandat est marqué par l’impossibilité de parvenir à un accord avec Hô Chi Minh et par le déclenchement du conflit. Rappelé en 1947, il renouvelle ses vœux, puis reprend une existence monastique.Fondée entre autres sur les papiers inédits de Georges d’Argenlieu, cette thèse à la croisée de l’histoire navale, religieuse, politique et coloniale, ambitionne de retrouver l’unité d’un homme et l’intransigeance d’une vie. Elle permet d’interroger les rapports politico-militaires, l’acculturation des officiers à la République, la place des chrétiens dans la Cité, mais aussi la vision et les pratiques coloniales de la France de la Libération. / This dissertation is a biography of French Admiral Georges Thierry d’Argenlieu (1889-1964), whose religious name was Father Louis de la Trinité, of the Order of Discalced Carmelites.After joining the École Navale in 1906, he took part in the campaign in Morocco and served in the Mediterranean during the First World War. After the conflict, he left the Navy and entered the order of the Discalced Carmelite Friars; this was the consequence of a personal evolution that had started before the war. In 1932, he was elected Provincial Superior of the Order. He was one of the main contributors to the renewal of the Order between the wars. He was mobilised in 1939 and captured during the defence of Cherbourg, but he escaped shortly after and joined De Gaulle in London. From London to Dakar and from Gabon to New Caledonia, he held major positions in the Free French Forces. As the first Chancellor of the Order of the Liberation and a close friend of Général De Gaulle, he had a prominent status in the Navy. In August 1945, he was appointed High Commissioner in Indochina. His mandate was marked by the impossibility to reach an agreement with Hô Chi Minh and the beginning of the First Indochina War. He was recalled to France in 1947 and resumed religious life.This dissertation is notably based on Georges d’Argenlieu’s unpublished personal papers; it aims to provide consistency to the itinerary of a complex man who led an uncompromising life. It explores politico-military relations, the role of Christians in secular society, the relations between senior officers and the French Republic as well as the colonial vision and mores of France at the time of the Liberation.

From the beginning of her career, Virginia Woolf moves beyond the perspective of her inherited class position to challenge a damaging class system. She increasingly recognizes the extent of her own complicity in the creation and maintenance of class structures supporting patriarchy, war, and British imperialism. Highlighting ambiguities inherent in the very category of class, she acknowledges the limiting "boxes" of language itself in attempts to rethink class. For Woolf, class is not monolithic but internally differentiated by gender and race. Examining Woolf's early work in relation to class theory shows that throughout her career Woolf interrogates the imbrication of gender and race in class politics. She finds class difference a fertile source of satire, and subjects her own class position to satirical scrutiny. At the same time, a certain psychology of class operates in Woolf: vulnerable to the dissolution of ego boundaries because of her mental illness, she at times shores up her sense of identity by reaffirming class boundaries that were otherwise repugnant to her. Thus Woolf vacillates between perceiving class as necessary to "civilization" and championing egalitarian views. Theoretical points of reference for this study include cultural materialism, feminist standpoint theory, psychoanalysis, and theories of class advanced by Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Max Weber, Gary Day, David Cannadine, Beverly Skeggs, and Rosemary Hennessy.