Catholicism, political culture, and the countryside
Subtitle: a social history of the Nazi Party in south Germany
By: Oded Heilbronner.
Series: Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: National socialism -- Germany -- Black Forest Region; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei; Catholics -- Germany -- Black Forest Region -- Political activity
Description: Recent scholarship has held that Germany's Catholic population, particularly in rural areas, consistently withheld support from the Nazi Party until 1933. In Catholicism, Political Culture, and the Countryside Oded Heilbronner makes a careful study of an important counterexample, that of the southern part of the state of Baden, a Catholic region where the Nazi Party enjoyed massive support from 1930 onward.

With its shift in emphasis from the Nazi Party to the society in which it operated, Catholicism, Political Culture, and the Countryside will be crucial reading for historians of Germany.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-311) and index.