German Social Democracy And The Rise Of Nazism

Author : Donna Harsch
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807861929

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German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism by Donna Harsch Pdf

German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism explores the failure of Germany's largest political party to stave off the Nazi threat to the Weimar republic. In 1928 members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) were elected to the chancellorship and thousands of state and municipal offices. But despite the party's apparent strengths, in 1933 Social Democracy succumbed to Nazi power without a fight. Previous scholarship has blamed this reversal of fortune on bureaucratic paralysis, but in this revisionist evaluation, Donna Harsch argues that the party's internal dynamics immobilized the SPD. Harsch looks closely at Social Democratic ideology, structure, and political culture, examining how each impinged upon the party's response to economic disaster, parliamentary crisis, and the Nazis. She considers political and organizational interplay within the SPD as well as interaction between the party, the Socialist trade unions, and the republican defense league. Conceding that lethargy and conservatism hampered the SPD, Harsch focuses on strikingly inventive ideas put forward by various Social Democrats to address the republic's crisis. She shows how the unresolved competition among these proposals blocked innovations that might have thwarted Nazism. Originally published in 1993. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Stefan Berger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317885771

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Social Democracy and the Working Class by Stefan Berger Pdf

This is a powerful and original survey of German social democracy breaks new ground in covering the movement's full span, from its origins after the French Revolution, to the present day. Stefan Berger looks beyond narrow party political history to relate Social Democracy to other working class identities in the period and sets the German experience within its wider European context. This timely book considers both the background and long-term perspective on the current rethinking of Social Democratic ideas and values, not only in Germany but also in France, Britain and elsewhere.

Author : Hans Mommsen
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807876077

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The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy by Hans Mommsen Pdf

In this definitive analysis of the Weimar Republic, Hans Mommsen surveys the political, social, and economic development of Germany between the end of World War I and the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor in 1933. His assessment of the German experiment with democracy challenges many long-held assumptions about the course and character of German history. Mommsen argues persuasively that the rise of totalitarianism in Germany was not inevitable but was the result of a confluence of specific domestic and international forces. As long as France and Britain exerted pressure on the new Germany after World War I, the radical Right hesitated to overthrow the constitution. But as international scrutiny decreased with the recognition of the legitimacy of the Weimar regime, totalitarian elements were able to gain the upper hand. At the same time, the world economic crisis of the early 1930s, with its social and political ramifications, further destabilized German democracy. This translation of the original German edition (published in 1989) brings the work to an English-speaking audience for the first time. European History

Author : Richard N. Hunt
Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Germany
ISBN : UVA:X004352332

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German Social Democracy, 1918-1933 by Richard N. Hunt Pdf

Author : Benjamin Lapp
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004433649

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Revolution from the Right by Benjamin Lapp Pdf

Revolution from the Right provides important new perspectives on the rise of National Socialism as it focuses on one of the most politically significant areas in the Weimar Republic: the central German state of Saxony. This highly industrialized state was the traditional stronghold of the left wing of Social Democracy, yet in the state elections of 1929 and 1930 it gave the National Socialists their first major electoral successes following a dramatic shift in its political life from the left to the far right. The National Socialists were able to gain support of middle-class voters attracted to militant anti-Marxism as well as from workers previously committed to the revolutionary left. Lapp investigates the dynamics of political radicalization in this densely populated, highly polarized, and politically volatile state from the German Revolution of 1918-19 to the Nazi seizure of power. He focuses on themes central to the history of Germany’s failed democracy: the role of bourgeois “moral outrage” in response to the Socialist reforms of the early Weimar period, the failure of the bourgeois parties to maintain their support among an increasingly radicalized middle-class electorate, and the success of the NSDAP in appealing to large segments of the working-class electorate. Studies of National Socialism have hitherto focused on a largely rural and middle-class following; by examining a highly industrialized area with a largely working-class population, Revolution from the Right illuminates central aspects of the appeal of National Socialism to a diverse constituency and in doing so offers new insights into the appeal of National Socialism and the collapse of the Weimar Republic.

Author : Michael N. Dobkowski,Isidor Wallimann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019107781

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Radical Perspectives on the Rise of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1945 by Michael N. Dobkowski,Isidor Wallimann Pdf

Author : Ingo Schmidt,Bryan Evans
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926836874

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Social Democracy After the Cold War by Ingo Schmidt,Bryan Evans Pdf

"Despite the market triumphalism that greeted the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet empire seemed initially to herald new possibilities for social democracy. In the 1990s, with a new era of peace and economic prosperity apparently imminent, people discontented with the realities of global capitalism swept social democrats into power in many Western countries. The resurgence was, however, brief. Neither the recurring economic crises of the 2000s nor the ongoing War on Terror was conducive to social democracy, which soon gave way to a prolonged decline in countries where social democrats had once held power. Arguing that neither globalization nor demographic change was key to the failure of social democracy, the contributors to this volume analyze the rise and decline of Third Way social democracy and seek to lay the groundwork for the reformulation of progressive class politics. Offering a comparative look at social democratic experience since the Cold War, the volume examines countries where social democracy has long been an influential political force--Sweden, Germany, Britain, and Australia--while also considering the history of Canada's NDP, the social democratic tradition in the United States, and the emergence of New Left parties in Germany and the province of Québec. The case studies point to a social democracy that has confirmed its rupture with the postwar order and its role as the primary political representative of workingclass interests. Once marked by redistributive and egalitarian policy perspectives, social democracy has, the book argues, assumed a new role--that of a modernizing force advancing the neoliberal cause." -- Publisher's website.

Author : William Smaldone
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739132111

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Confronting Hitler by William Smaldone Pdf

The stories of the individual men and women who led German Social Democracy's failed efforts to fend off the Nazi onslaught in 1933 have largely been lost in the wake of the cataclysmic war, the Holocaust, and the division of Europe that followed Hitler's victory. Confronting Hitler recovers their stories and places them at center stage. In a series of biographical essays focusing on the experiences of ten leading Social Democratic activists, Smaldone examines their defeat in 1933 from the perspective of individuals enmeshed in political struggle. This study reveals what aspects of these activists' lives were most important in shaping their political outlook during the republic's final crisis and it illustrates the key factors that guided their actions in the effort to keep the republic alive. In addition, the biographies raise the important issue of the degree to which the defeat of German Social Democracy in 1933 is comparable to the experiences of other democratic socialist movements in the twentieth century.

Author : Anthony James Nicholls
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Germany
ISBN : UOM:39015010429606

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Weimar and the Rise of Hitler by Anthony James Nicholls Pdf

An introduction to the political history of the Weimar Republic. The failure, in the years after the First World War, of German democracy was of crucial importance to the world as a whole. Very often the causes of this failure have been sought in the national character of the Germans, in their historical development, in the nature of Western capitalism, in the weaknesses of the Republic constitution, and sometimes in the hypnotic power of Adolf Hitler. While some of these explanations are more respectable than others, none alone can satisfy any serious enquiry.

Author : Alex Burkhardt
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527540286

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Democrats into Nazis by Alex Burkhardt Pdf

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.

Author : Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800734920

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Nazism in Central Germany by Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann Pdf

Most studies on the spread of Nazism in German society before and after 1933 concentrate on the country's western parts. As a result, so the author claims, our overall picture of the situation has been distorted since the eastern areas contained a substantial portion of the population. Neglecting them means that all generalizations about the Nazi period require further testing. This first comprehensive study of Saxony therefore fills a large gap, also in light of the fact that Saxony was one of the most industrialized German regions. It deals with problems of continuity and change in German society during three distinct phases: constitutional monarchy, parliamentary democracy, and dictatorship. The author shows convincingly that it was deep-rooted local traditions that determined the success or failure of Nazism among the local population.

Author : Thomas Leckie Jarman
Publisher : London : Cresset Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Germany
ISBN : UOM:39015002245044

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The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany by Thomas Leckie Jarman Pdf

SCOTT (Copy 1): From the John Holmes Library collection.

Author : Conan Fischer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015038426774

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The Rise of the Nazis by Conan Fischer Pdf

The question of how and why the Nazis seized power in Germany remains heated, and important discoveries continue to challenge long-standing assumptions. This text takes stock of the debate and concludes that certain orthodoxies require rethinking.

Author : Richard Breitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004984012

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German Socialism and Weimar Democracy by Richard Breitman Pdf

In this first analysis in English of the relationship of the German Social Democratic party to the Weimar Republic, Breitman stresses the party's conflicting loyalties to both Marxist traditions and democratic principles. He explains how and why an evolutionary socialist strategy failed to promote or to prevent the rise of Nazism. The non socialist parties showed no interest in meeting the SPD halfway, and there was internal dissent over coalition with other parties. Originally published in 1981. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Benjamin Carter Hett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735234826

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The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett Pdf

A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In The Death of Democracy, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time. To say that Hitler was elected is too simple. He would never have come to power if Germany's leading politicians had not responded to a spate of populist insurgencies by trying to co-opt him, a strategy that backed them into a corner from which the only way out was to bring the Nazis in. Hett lays bare the misguided confidence of conservative politicians who believed that Hitler and his followers would willingly support them, not recognizing that their efforts to use the Nazis actually played into Hitler's hands. They had willingly given him the tools to turn Germany into a vicious dictatorship. Benjamin Carter Hett is a leading scholar of twentieth-century Germany and a gifted storyteller whose portraits of these feckless politicans show how fragile democracy can be when those in power do not respect it. He offers a powerful lesson for today, when democracy once again finds itself embattled and the siren song of strongmen sounds ever louder.