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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793385203321

Titolo

From Weimar to Hitler : studies in the dissolution of the Weimar Republic and the establishment of the Third Reich, 1932-1934 / / edited by Hermann Beck, Larry Eugene Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2019

ISBN

1-78533-918-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (464 pages)

Disciplina

943.086

Soggetti

National socialism - History

Social change - Germany - History - 20th century

Germany History 1918-1933

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- From Weimar to Hitler -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Taming the Nazi Beast -- Chapter 2. Ausnahmezustand, Staatsnotstandsplan, and Ermächtigungsgesetz -- Chapter 3. Ludwig Kaas and the End of the German Center Party -- Chapter 4. The Nazi Seizure of Power in Bavaria and the Demise of the Bavarian People's Party -- Chapter 5. German Big Business and the National Revolution, 1933-34 -- Chapter 6. Violence against "Ostjuden" in the Spring of 1933 and the Reaction of German Authorities -- Chapter 7. The SA in the Gleichschaltung -- Chapter 8. Nationalist Socialism against National Socialism? -- Chapter 9. Nationalism, Socialism, &amp -- Organized Labor's Response to the Weimar Republic's Dissolution -- Chapter 10. From Collegiality to the Führerprinzip -- Chapter 11. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh and the Protestant Appeasement of the Nazi Regime, 1933-34 -- Chapter 12. In Search of Allies -- Chapter 13. German Youth between Euphoria and Resistance -- Chapter 14. "German Youth, Your Leader!" -- Conclusion -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Though often depicted as a rapid political transformation, the Nazi seizure of power was in fact a process that extended from the appointment of the Papen cabinet in the early summer of 1932 through



the Röhm blood purge two years later. Across fourteen rigorous and carefully researched chapters, From Weimar to Hitler offers a compelling collective investigation of this critical period in modern German history. Each case study presents new empirical research on the crisis of Weimar democracy, the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship, and Hitler's consolidation of power. Together, they provide multiple perspectives on the extent to which the triumph of Nazism was historically predetermined or the product of human miscalculation and intent"--