The Pan-German League and radical nationalist politics in interwar Germany, 1918-39
By: Barry A. Jackisch
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781409427612; 9781409427629
Subjects: Politics and government; Alldeutscher Verband; Pangermanism; Radicalism; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei; Politicians; Right-wing extremists; Nationalism; Biography; History
Description: 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 --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Pan-German League and the German Right; title: In the Wake of War and Revolution; title: The Bamberg Declaration; title: First Steps; title: Political Parties and the New System; title: The Kapp Putsch; title: The Völkisch Malaise, 1919-1924; title: Reinhold Wulle and Heinrich Class : Personal Differences; title: The Growing Völkisch Divide; title: General Erich Ludendorff; title: The Founding of the Deutschvölkische Freiheitspartei; title: Early Contacts : Adolf Hitler and National Socialism, 1920-1924; title: Forging the Relationship; title: Class, Pöhner, Kahr, and Bavarian Politics; title: The "Beer Hall" Putsch and its Aftermath; title: The Demands of Party Politics, 1919-1925; title: The DNVP's Early History and the "Völkisch Secession" of 1922; title: Internal and External Challenges to the DNVP in 1924; title: From the Dawes Plan Vote to the December 1924 Elections; title: 1925 : The DNVP in Government; title: Withdrawal from the Luther Cabinet; title: The Campaign for Alfred Hugenberg, 1926-1928; title: Laying the Foundation : Heinrich Class and Personal Political Influence; title: The "Class Putsch" and Right-Wing Politics, 1926-1927; title: Toward a Change in DNVP Leadership, 1927-1928; title: The Collapse of the Non-Nazi Right, 1929-1939; title: The Anti-Young Plan Campaign and the Radicalization of the DNVP; title: From the Harzburg Front to the Nazi Seizure of Power; title: Between Conformity and Opposition in the Third Reich; title: Conclusion.