The Pan-german League And Radical Nationalist Politics In Interwar Germany, 1918-39
by Barry A. Jackisch /
2012 / English / PDF
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Through an examination of the Pan-German League - one of Germany's
most prominent radical nationalist groups - and its connections to
a range of right-wing organizations between 1918 and 1939, this
study provides important new insights into the political
fragmentation of the German Right and the Nazi seizure of power. It
is the first book to examine in detail the Pan-German League's
political activities in the Weimar and Nazi periods. Unlike
existing studies that focus primarily on the League's ideology and
public pronouncements, this book analyzes the organization's
political connections with other prominent right-wing groups.
Specifically, it explores Pan-German efforts to reshape the
landscape of right-wing politics in the wake of German defeat in
World War One and details how the League's actions undermined
moderate conservatives and helped to radicalize Germany's largest
conservative party, the German National People's Party (DNVP), at
the local and national level. The book also sheds new light on the
surprisingly contentious relationship between the Pan-Germans and
the Nazi Party between 1920 and 1939. This study of the Pan-German
League fits with more recent scholarship that emphasizes the
political fragmentation of the German Right as an important
precondition for the ultimate triumph of Hitler and Nazism in 1933.
It will attract readers with an interest not only in the Weimar
Republic and Nazi Germany, but also wider issues of German/Central
European history, radical nationalism, conservative and right-wing
party politics, and the general political history of interwar
Europe.
Through an examination of the Pan-German League - one of Germany's
most prominent radical nationalist groups - and its connections to
a range of right-wing organizations between 1918 and 1939, this
study provides important new insights into the political
fragmentation of the German Right and the Nazi seizure of power. It
is the first book to examine in detail the Pan-German League's
political activities in the Weimar and Nazi periods. Unlike
existing studies that focus primarily on the League's ideology and
public pronouncements, this book analyzes the organization's
political connections with other prominent right-wing groups.
Specifically, it explores Pan-German efforts to reshape the
landscape of right-wing politics in the wake of German defeat in
World War One and details how the League's actions undermined
moderate conservatives and helped to radicalize Germany's largest
conservative party, the German National People's Party (DNVP), at
the local and national level. The book also sheds new light on the
surprisingly contentious relationship between the Pan-Germans and
the Nazi Party between 1920 and 1939. This study of the Pan-German
League fits with more recent scholarship that emphasizes the
political fragmentation of the German Right as an important
precondition for the ultimate triumph of Hitler and Nazism in 1933.
It will attract readers with an interest not only in the Weimar
Republic and Nazi Germany, but also wider issues of German/Central
European history, radical nationalism, conservative and right-wing
party politics, and the general political history of interwar
Europe.
