{"product_id":"9780814212431","title":"Conversations on Cognitive Cultural Studies: Literature, Language, and Aesthetics","description":"\u003cp\u003ePurchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Hermann Göring, Otto Skorzeny, Ernst Röhm, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Erich Koch, Hans-Adolf Prützmann, Friedrich Krüger, Hans Von Tschammer Und Osten, Viktor Lutze, Oswald Pohl, Wilhelm Adam, Hanns Albin Rauter, Alfred Proksch, Fritz Reinhardt, Karl Holz, Friedrich Rainer, Walter Schimana, Wilhelm Brückner, Arthur Ehrhardt, Franz Pfeffer Von Salomon, Wilhelm Schepmann, Siegfried Kasche, Karl Ernst, Siegfried Uiberreither, Gerhard Wagner, Edmund Heines, Emil Ketterer, Wilhelm Beiglböck, Hans Ulrich Klintzsch. Excerpt: Alfred Proksch Alfred Proksch (8 March, 1891, in Larischau (Czech : Láry ov ; now a part of Býkov-Láry ov (German : Pickau-Larischau )), nearby Jägerndorf , Austrian Silesia - 3 January, 1981, in Vienna ) was an Austrian Nazi Party official. Proksch enrolled in the Kaiser Infantry Regiment No. 1 of the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1910 and then the Railway Academy in Linz in 1912 before taking a job with the government railways. He returned to the army in 1914 with the Infantry Regiment No. 91 and saw action during the First World War in Poland and Russia . He first became involved in politics in 1912 when he joined the German Workers' Party and worked on behalf of the party in Silesia and Moravia . After his war service Proksch settled in the now much smaller Austria and returned to politics by rejoining the renamed Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei . Proksch met Adolf Hitler in his earliest years as a Nazi and became a loyal follower of the German from then on. Proksch launched the Nazis in Upper Austria , where he would serve as Gauleiter , and founded both the party newspaper Volksstimme and the NSP-Verlag publishing house. He also served on Linz City Council for the party from 1923 to 1932. Proksch was appointed deputy Landesleite...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030572744944,"sku":"9780814212431","price":62.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814212431_p0.jpg?v=1763739965","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814212431","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}