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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Eley, Geoff
• Baranowski, Shelley
• Szejnmann, Claus‐Christian W
• Nolzen, Armin

Titel

How Do We Explain the Rise of Nazism? Theory and Historiography

Ist Teil von

• A Companion to Nazi Germany, 2018, p.15-32

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Quelle

Wiley Online Library All Obooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter surveys the complex historiographies surrounding the rise of the Nazi Party in the 1920s and then its ascent to power in the early 1930s. Theories of fascism and totalitarianism each receive attention, as does the so‐called Sonderweg thesis that achieved some dominance in the 1960s and 1970s. After weighing the significance of immediate events versus longer term continuities, the chapter shifts focus to consider the dynamics of radicalization during the later years of the Weimar Republic. It surveys both the social histories of the rise of Nazism (NSDAP, SA, elections, sociologies of membership and support, dynamics of mobilization, local settings of Nazi success, and processes of interest representation) and the dynamics of the Nazi appeal, whether at a level of ideology or in the everyday histories of political action.