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 Wa...

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1. Verfasser:	Burkhardt, Alex ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Newcastle-upon-Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2019
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1918-1924 Mittelstand Politischer Wandel Nationalsozialismus Radikalisierung Hof (Saale)
Zusammenfassung:	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 Hofs 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. (Klappentext)
Beschreibung:	xiv, 281 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte
ISBN:	9781527536418 1527536416