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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.
List 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
About the author
Conan Fischer is Reader in History at the Department of History, University of Strathclyde.
Summary
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 exami
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"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
