The Shaping of the Nazi State

307 Pages·2014·8.107 MB·English

by  Peter D. Stachura

ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS:
NAZI GERMANY AND THE HOLOCAUST
Volume 8
THE SHAPING OF THE NAZI STATE
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THE SHAPING OF THE NAZI STATE
Edited by
PETER D. STACHURA
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THE SHAPING
OF THE
NAZI STATE
EDITED BY PETER D. STACHURA
V
CROOM HELM LONDON
BARNES & NOBLE BOOKS NEW YORK
(a division of Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.)
© 1978 Peter D. Stachura
Croom Helm Ltd., 2-10 St John’s Road, London SW11
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
The shaping of the Nazi state.
1. National socialism 2. Germany - Politics and
government - 1918-1933 3. Germany - Politics
and government - 1933-1945
I. Stachura, Peter D
335.6’0943 DD240
ISBN 0-85664-471-4
Published in the USA 1978 by
Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.
Barnes & Noble Import Division
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
The Shaping of the Nazi state.
Bibliography: p
Includes index.
1. Germany-Politics and government-1918-1933.
2. Germany-Politics and government-1933-1945.
3. National socialism. I. Stachura, Peter D.
DD249.S43 320.9’43’085 77-10038
ISBN 0-06-496492-2
Printed and bound in Great Britain by
Redwood Burn Limited, Trowbridge & Esher
CONTENTS
Introduction Peter D Stachura 9
1. The Evolution of Hitler’s Ideas on Foreign Policy, 1919-1925 22
Geoffrey Stoakes
2. Gottfried Feder and the NSDAP Albrecht Tyrell 48
3. ‘Der Fall Strasser’: Gregor Strasser, Hitler and National 88
Socialism 1930-1932 Peter Dl Stachura
4. The Occupational Background of the SA’s Rank and File 131
Membership during the Depression Years, 1929 to mid-1934
Conan J. Fischer
5. The Rise of the National Socialist Students’ Association and 160
the Failure of Political Education in the Third Reich Geoffrey
J. Giles
6. The Nazi Organisation of Women 1933-39 Jill Stephenson 186
7. The Oldenburg Crucifix Struggle of November 1936: A Case 210
Study of Opposition in the Third Reich Jeremy Noakes
8. Bureaucracy, Politics and the National Socialist State 234
Jane Caplan
9. The German Film Industry and the New Order Marcus S. 257
Phillips
Glossary and Abbreviations 282
Contributors 294
Index 298
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