Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939

by David Schoenbaum

Overview

Beginning with Germany's social situation after World War I, David Schoenbaum shows how Hitler improvised a program that apparently offered something to everyone—above all, the mirage of a classless society.

In fact, the gap between the ideology of the Reich and its actual character was enormous. But under the spell of the mirage, the will to resist was undermined by an accelerating process of social disintegration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393315547
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	03/17/1997
Series:	Norton Paperback
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

David Schoenbaum is the author of seven books, including Hitler’s Social Revolution, The United States and the State of Israel, and The Violin. Formerly a professor of history at the University of Iowa, he has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Economist. A lifelong amateur violinist, he lives in Rockville, Maryland.

Editorial Reviews

"Valuable and impressive. . . . A genuinely new contribution to historical understanding."

Economist

"Schoenbaum's thesis—that German society committed suicide by concurrently using the means of industrial society to achieve its goal of destroying industrial society . . . constitutes an interpretation of major historiographical significance."

Choice

"Valuable and impressive. . . . A genuinely new contribution to historical understanding."

Economist