Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 (Norton Paperback) - Softcover

Schoenbaum, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393315541 ISBN 13: 9780393315547

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997

Synopsis

Beginning with Germany's social situation after World War I, David Schoenbaum shows how Hitler improvised a program that apparently offered something to everyone--above all, the mirage of a classless society.

In fact, the gap between the ideology of the Reich and its actual character was enormous. But under the spell of the mirage, the will to resist was undermined by an accelerating process of social disintegration.

About this title

About the Author:

David Schoenbaum is the author of seven books, including The Violin: A Social History of the World’s Most Versatile Instrument. An historian and amateur violinist, he lives in Rockville, Maryland.

Review:

“Schoenbaum's thesis--that German society committed suicide by concurrently using the means of industrial society to achieve its goal of destroying industrial society . . . constitutes an interpretation of major historiographical significance.”
- Choice

“Valuable and impressive. . . . A genuinely new contribution to historical understanding.”
- Economist

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0393315541
• ISBN 13: 9780393315547
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352