Democrats Into Nazis: Middle Class Radicalisation in a Single German Town, 1918-1924 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781527536418)

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 Hofâ (TM)s inhabitants as part of a broader â oeEuropean 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: Alex Burkhardt
ISBN-10: 1527536416
ISBN-13: 9781527536418
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 09/24/2019
Pages: 283
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 0.90d