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

Schoenbaum, David

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9780385059176: Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939

Synopsis

The author attempts to analyze Hitler's appeal to German farmers, workers, businessmen, industrialists, women and youth. Beginning with Germany's social situation after World War I, he demonstrates how Hitler improvised a programme that claimed to offer a classless society.

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About the Author

David Schoenbaum, a professional historian and lifelong amateur violinist, has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Economist, and many other publications. His previous books include Hitler’s Social Revolution and The United States and the State of Israel.

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