National Socialist Ideology

Szejnmann, Claus-Christian W.

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“…Instead of emphasising the power of propaganda or coercion, historians such as Michael Wildt or Martina Steber have begun to focus on the participatory plurality that was contained under the framework of Nazi ideology. 71 Similarly, Nicholas Stargardt's The German War accounted for a whole range of mind-sets and social identities that only stood in partial conformity to the demands of the regime, but that were nonetheless mobilized within the "national community". 72 Over the years, qualitative studies have emerged that evaluated the integration processes of the most different social groups in Nazi Germany, ranging from Catholic Christians and members of the nobility to former adherents of feminist movements.…”

Section: The Problem Of Social Plurality In the Nazi Movementmentioning

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The Social Backgrounds of Nazi Leaders: A Statistical Analysis of Political Elites in Weimar Germany, 1918–1933

Unger‐Alvi

2022

J Historical Sociology

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This article compares the social backgrounds of Nazi leaders and representatives of democratic parties in the Weimar Republic. It does not advance any overarching new narrative on Nazism’s social origins, but rather aims to present a nuanced statistical picture of Weimar’s political elites. The results of this analysis are derived from an index of German members of parliament and from a new dataset, which has recently been collected from the Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB), Germany’s largest biographical encyclopaedia. Together, these two samples cover more than 2000 German politicians, industrialists, diplomats, political writers, academics, high state officials, and important journalists. This article reveals sociological differences between the politicians who led the Nazi party in parliament and those elites that promoted Nazism in the media, in academia, or within the German civil service. While Nazi politicians in the Reichstag were recruited from a variety of social classes, ranging from industrial workers to members of the aristocracy, National Socialist elites outside the parliament typically belonged to the Bildungsbürgertum and sociologically resembled the highly educated members of democratic and liberal parties. Overall, the picture of a generation of Nazi leaders emerges that was sociologically far more heterogeneous than is often recognized by historians.

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Section: The Problem Of Social Plurality In the Nazi Movementmentioning

confidence: 99%