Libro The Nazi Party: The Anatomy of a People's Party, 1919-1933 De Paul Madden; Detlef Mühlberger

portada The Nazi Party: The Anatomy of a People's Party, 1919-1933

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Peter Lang

Autor

Paul Madden; Detlef Mühlberger

Año

2007

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

329

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Peso

ISBN

3039105426

ISBN13

9783039105427

N° edición

Categorías

Alemania
Historia de europa

The Nazi Party: The Anatomy of a People's Party, 1919-1933

Paul Madden; Detlef Mühlberger (Autor) · Peter Lang · Tapa Dura

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The social characteristics of the membership of the Nazi Party have been much debated since the late 1920s. The dominant hypothesis which emerged at the time and which became orthodoxy after 1945 was that the Nazis drew their membership and electoral support almost exclusively from the middle class (Mittelstand), a hypothesis based on virtually no empirical evidence. The research undertaken by the authors since the 1970s at the macro and micro level has been instrumental not only in placing the debate on the sociography of the membership of the Nazi Party on an extensive empirical footing, but also in overturning the received wisdom that the Nazi Party was a pre-eminently middle-class or lower-middle-class movement. The book contains amended versions of a number of pioneering articles on the social contours of the membership of the Nazi Party published by the authors in the 1980s, added to which are new studies examining the social background of members of the Nazi Party recruited in a rural region, in a famous university town, and in one of Germany's most prominent cities. Collectively the studies presented here underline the diversity of the social types which were mobilised by the Nazi Party, which was successful in attracting support from all sections of German society before 1933, making it a people's party (Volkspartei) transcending the class divide, not a class or lower-middle-class affair.