Democrats into Nazis : middle class radicalisation in a single German town, 1918-1924 / by Alex Burkhardt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burkhardt, Alex, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germany--Politics and government--1918-1933.

Germany.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

How did millions of middle-class Germans come to support extreme nationalist and anti-democratic groups during the Weimar Republic? This troubling and pointedly argued book addresses this question through a targeted case study of Hof, a small Bavarian town, in the five years after the First World War. During this tumultuous period, a series of devastating crises and violent confrontations discredited the representatives of democratic liberalism and handed the initiative to a reinvigorated radical Right. Crucially, these crises were understood by Hof's inhabitants as part of a broader "European Civil War" unleashed by the Russian Revolution and Treaty of Versailles. This detailed and disturbing study will be read with profit by students and scholars of modern history who seek new insights into the rise of the Nazis, and into the processes of popular radicalisation that did so much to bring about the destruction of the Weimar Republic.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Abstract

Acknowledgements

List of Maps and Illustrations

List of Abbreviations and Translations

Introduction

Middle-Class Radicalisation in the Weimar Republic

Thesis and Sources

Conclusion

I

The Location

Confession

Industrialisation

A Divided Town

The Impact of the First World War

II

The Rise of the German Democratic Party in Hof

The "Dreamland" of the Armistice

The Independent Socialists and the Spartacist Uprising

III

The Räterepublik and Anti-Bolshevist Mobilisation in Hof

The Treaty of Versailles

The Local and Municipal Elections

IV

The Kapp Putsch

The "German Civil War"

The Reichstag and Landtag Elections of June 1920

V

A Changing of the Guard

Nationalist Ideology in Hof (1): Hopes

Nationalist Ideology in Hof (2): Hatreds

VI

The Ruhr Crisis

The Rise of the "Patriotic Movement"

The Hitler Putsch and the Elections of 1924

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Bibliography

Archival Sources

Secondary Literature

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-4028-6

OCLC:

1183030707