EAN: 9783039105427

THE NAZI PARTY - DETLEF MÜHLBERGER PAUL MADDEN ...

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.

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