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* This paper was first presented at a conference of the European University Institute in Florence as part of the research project Cultural Construction of Community in Modernization Processes (Humboldt University Berlin & European University Institute). I would like to thank David Bathrick, Bernd and Manfred Henningsen, Reinhart Koselleck, Adrian Lyttelton, Simon Renton, Bernhard Rieger, Bo StrAth and Nina Witoszek for their discussion of the paper as well as their help during the writing process. The notion, Youth as a metaphor of social change, has been introduced by Luisa Passerini in her article Youth as a Metaphor for Social Change: Fascist Italy and America in the 1950s, A History of Young People, vol. 2: Stormy Evolution to Modern Times, Giovanni Levi and JeanClaude Schmitt, eds. (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1997) 281-340. 1. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996). This article refers to the second British edition: (London: Abacus, 1997).
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