Democrats into Nazis: Middle Class Radicalisation in a Single German Town, 1918-1924

Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2020,

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Author

Burkhardt Alex

Publishers

Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2020

Binding description

Dust jacket

State of preservation

As New

Binding

Hardcover

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First edition

Description

8vo, hardcover. 286pp. 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 Hofís inhabitants as part of a broader ìEuropean Civil Warî 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.