Social Life, Local Politics, and Nazism: Marburg, 1880-1935 / Edition 1

by Rudy J. Koshar

Overview

Focusing on Marburg, a contentious university town where voters demonstrated strong electoral support for Adolf Hitler's National Socialist party, this imaginative study discusses the political role of small-town organizational life and painstakingly reconstructs the full range of Nazi sympathizers' cross-affiliations with local voluntary groups.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807842874
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	09/14/1990
Edition description:	1
Pages:	413
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.93(d)

About the Author

Rudy Koshar is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Germany's Transient Pasts: Preservation and National Memory in the Twentieth Century.

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From the Publisher

[Koshar's] study . . . illustrates better than most how Nazi adherents, too often dismissed as fanatics and criminals, included a shocking number of 'normal' people. A most valuable contribution to the understanding of modern Germany.—Choice

Editorial Reviews

A most valuable contribution to the understanding of modern Germany.

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