Fritzsche, Peter, 1959-

Germans into Nazis / Peter Fritzsche. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1998. - v, 269 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-264) and index.

July 1914 -- November 1918 -- January 1933 -- May 1933.

Why did ordinary Germans vote for Hitler? In this dramatically plotted book, organized around crucial turning points in 1914, 1918, and 1933, Peter Fritzsche explains why the Nazis were so popular and what was behind the political choice made by the German people. Rejecting the view that Germans voted for the Nazis simply because they hated the Jews, or had been humiliated in World War I, or had been ruined by the Great Depression, Fritzsche makes the controversial argument that Nazism was part of a larger process of democratization and political invigoration that began with the outbreak of the war.

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1900-1999


Nationalism--Germany--20th century.
World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--Germany.
National socialism.
National characteristics, German.


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