{"product_id":"the-fateful-alliance-hermann-beck-9781845454968","title":"The Fateful Alliance: German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933: The Machtergreifung in a New Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e On 30 January 1933, Alfred Hugenberg's conservative German National People's Party (DNVP) formed a coalition government with the Nazi Party, thus enabling Hitler to accede to the chancellorship. This book analyzes in detail the complicated relationship between Conservatives and Nazis and offers a re-interpretation of the Nazi seizure of power - the decisive months between 30 January and 14 July 1933. The \u003ci\u003eMachtergreifung\u003c\/i\u003e is characterized here as a period of all-pervasive violence and lawlessness with incessant conflicts between Nazis and German Nationals and Nazi attacks on the conservative \u003ci\u003eB rgertum\u003c\/i\u003e, a far cry from the traditional depiction of the takeover as a relatively bloodless, virtually sterile assumption of power by one vast impersonal apparatus wresting control from another. The author scrutinizes the revolutionary character of the Nazi seizure of power, the Nazis' attacks on the conservative \u003ci\u003eB rgertum\u003c\/i\u003e and its values, and National Socialism's co-optation of conservative symbols of state power to serve radically new goals, while addressing the issue of why the DNVP was complicit in this and paradoxically participated in eroding the foundations of its very own principles and bases of support.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hermann Beck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1845454960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781845454968\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2008 pg. 45","brand":"Hermann Beck","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44201955361023,"sku":"9781845454968","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_40fb6754-7f4a-434e-bb0c-4e452201f873.jpg?v=1691492392","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-fateful-alliance-hermann-beck-9781845454968","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}