The Nazi Party: The Anatomy of a People's Party, 1919-1933

by Paul Madden and Detlef Mühlberger

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3039105426
• ISBN13: 9783039105427
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 329 Pages