The Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic

1996-03-25
The Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic
Author: Roger Woods
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 183
Release: 1996-03-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230375855
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Embracing some of Germany's best known writers, academics, journalists and philosophers, the Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic was the intellectual vanguard of the Right. By approaching the Conservative Revolution as an intellectual movement, this study sheds new light on the evolution of its ideas on the meaning of the First World War, its appropriation of the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, its enthusiasm for political activism and a strong leader, and its ambiguous relationship with National Socialism.

Weimar Germany

2018-09-25
Weimar Germany
Author: Eric D. Weitz
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691183058
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"Weimar Centennial edition with a new preface by the author."--Title page.

The Weimar Republic Sourcebook

1994
The Weimar Republic Sourcebook
Author: Anton Kaes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 836
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520067745
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Reproduces (translated into English) contemporary documents or writings with an introduction to each section.

A Single Communal Faith?

2007-10-01
A Single Communal Faith?
Author: Thomas Rohkrämer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2007-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1800734018
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How could the Right transform itself from a politics of the nobility to a fatally attractive option for people from all parts of society? How could the Nazis gain a good third of the votes in free elections and remain popular far into their rule? A number of studies from the 1960s have dealt with the issue, in particular the works by George Mosse and Fritz Stern. Their central arguments are still challenging, but a large number of more specific studies allow today for a much more complex argument, which also takes account of changes in our understanding of German history in general. This book shows that between 1800 and 1945 the fundamentalist desire for a single communal faith played a crucial role in the radicalization of Germany's political Right. A nationalist faith could gain wider appeal, because people were searching for a sense of identity and belonging, a mental map for the modern world and metaphysical security.

The Fateful Alliance

2008-04-01
The Fateful Alliance
Author: Hermann Beck
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2008-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857450182
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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 Machtergreifung 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 Bürgertum, 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 Bürgertum 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.

German Novelists of the Weimar Republic

2006
German Novelists of the Weimar Republic
Author: Karl Leydecker
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 1571132880
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The Weimar Republic was a turbulent and fateful time in German history. Characterized by economic and political instability, polarization, and radicalism, the period witnessed the efforts of many German writers to play a leading political role, whether directly, in the chaotic years of 1918-1919, or indirectly, through their works. The novelists chosen range from such now-canonical authors as Alfred Döblin, Hermann Hesse, and Heinrich Mann to bestselling writers of the time such as Erich Maria Remarque, B. Traven, Vicki Baum, and Hans Fallada. They also span the political spectrum, from the right-wing Ernst Jünger to pacifists such as Remarque. The journalistic engagement of Joseph Roth, otherwise well known as a novelist, and of the recently rediscovered writer Gabriele Tergit is also represented. CONTRIBUTORS: PAUL BISHOP, ROLAND DOLLINGER, HELEN CHAMBERS, KARIN V. GUNNEMANN, DAVID MIDGLEY, BRIAN MURDOCH, FIONA SUTTON, HEATHER VALENCIA, JENNY WILLIAMS, ROGER WOODS KARL LEYDECKER is Reader in German at the University of Kent.

From Weimar to Hitler

1993-10-15
From Weimar to Hitler
Author: E.J. Feuchtwanger
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1993-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1349229482
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Weimar Germany continues to fascinate and to inspire controversy. Particularly in Germany there has been a spate of recent research which calls for a fresh synthesis. This book takes a new look at the current debate on the major themes, the revolution, hyperinflation, Weimar welfarism, the labour movement, the liberal intelligentsia, the Conservative Revolution, the policies of the Bruning government and the rise of Nazism. It highlights the interconnections in a complex society between developments in different spheres and shows that Hitler's assumption of power was never inevitable.