The Rise of National Socialism and the Working Classes in Weimar Germany

by Conan Fischer (Editor)

Overview

Before seizing power the Nazi movement assembled an exceptionally broad social coalition of activists and supporters. Many were working class, but there remains considerable disagreement over the precise size and structure of this constituency and still more over its ideology and politics. An indispensable work for scholars of interwar Germany and Nazism in general.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781571819154
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	11/01/1996
Series:	History
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)
Lexile:	1710L (what's this?)

About the Author

Conan Fischer is Reader in History at the Department of History, University of Strathclyde.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. How likely were Workers to Vote for the NSDAP?
J. W. Falter

Chapter 2. A "Workers' Party" or a "Party without Workers"?
D. Mühlberger

Chapter 3. The Young Membership of the NSDAP between 1925 and 1933
J. W. Falter

Chapter 4. The Pattern of the SA's Social Appeal
C. Fischer and D. Mühlberger

Chapter 5. National Socialist Factory Cell Organisation and the German Labour Front
G. Mai

Chapter 6. Blue-collar Nazism
W. Brustein

Chapter 7. National Socialism and the Working-Class Women before 1933
H. Boak

Chapter 8. The Rise of the Nazi Party in the Working-Class Milieu of Saxony
C. C. Szejnmann

Chapter 9. The Black Forest: the Disintegration of the Workers' Catholic Milieu and the Rise of the Nazi Party
O. Heilbronner

Conclusion
C. Fischer

Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Despite its impressive range the collection is remarkably coherent ... [it] constitutes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the social base of Nazism."  · Labor History

From the Publisher

In light of growing scepticism at the accepted wisdom that National Socialism and the German working class had nothing but immediate and enduring hostility for each other before World War II, nine essays enumerate and define the Nazi electorate and membership as precisely as records allow, and examine the processes that facilitated or even encouraged the formation of a Nazi working-class constituency. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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