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Author:   Hermann Beck ,  Larry Eugene Jones
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781785339172

ISBN 10:   1785339176
Pages:   508
Publication Date:   29 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Nazi Seizure of Power in Historical and Historiographical Perspective Hermann Beck and Larry Eugene Jones Chapter 1. Taming the Nazi Beast: Kurt von Schleicher and the End of the Weimar Republic Larry Eugene Jones Chapter 2. Ausnahmezustand, Staatsnotstandsplan, and Ermachtigungsgesetz: Reappraising Carl Schmitt's Political Constitutionalism and the Demise of Weimar Joseph W. Bendersky Chapter 3. Ludwig Kaas and the End of the German Center Party Martin Menke Chapter 4. The Nazi Seizure of Power in Bavaria and the Demise of the Bavarian People's Party Winfried Becker Chapter 5. German Big Business and the Nazi Revolution, 1933-34 Peter Hayes Chapter 6. Violence against 'Ostjuden' in the Spring of 1933 and the Reaction of German Authorities Hermann Beck Chapter 7. The SA in the Gleichschaltung: The Context of Power and Violence Bruce B. Campbell Chapter 8. Nationalist Socialism against National Socialism?: Perceptions of Nazism and Anti-Nazi Strategies in the Circle of the Neue Blatter fur den Sozialismus, 1930-34 Stefan Vogt Chapter 9. Nationalism, Socialism, and Organized Labor's Response to the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic William L. Patch, Jr. Chapter 10. From Collegiality to the Fuhrerprinzip: The 1933 Introduction of the Episcopacy in the Hamburg Landeskirche Rainer Hering Chapter 11. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh and the Protestant Appeasement of the Nazi Regime, 1933-34 Edward Snyder Chapter 12. In Search of Allies: Catholic Conservatives, the Alliance of Catholic Germans, and the Nazi Regime, 1933-34 Larry Eugene Jones and Kevin P. Spicer Chapter 13. German Youth between Euphoria and Resistance: Political Coercion and the Coordination of German Youth Andre Postert Chapter 14. German Youth, Your Leader! : How National Socialism Entered Elementary Schools in 1933 Katharine Kennedy Conclusion: Reaffirming the Value of Political History Hermann Beck and Larry Eugene Jones Index

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This excellent, accessible volume will be of great interest to scholars and informed readers looking to gain new insight into the topic of Hitler's seizure and consolidation of power. - Barry Jackisch, University of Saint Francis

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Hermann Beck is Professor of History at the University of Miami. He is author of The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia (1995), and The Fateful Alliance (2008).Larry Eugene Jones is Professor of Modern European History at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. He is the author of German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System, 1918-1933 (1988), and Hitler versus Hindenburg (2015).

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