The Sanctity of Rural Life: Nobility, Protestantism, and Nazism in Weimar Prussia

ISBN-13: 9780195068818 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 280 str.

Shelley Baranowski

Opis

In this ground-breaking study, Shelley Baranowski not only explores how and why church-going Protestants in eastern Prussia turned to Nazism in large numbers, but also shows that the rural elite and the church propagated a myth of the stability, the wholesomeness, and the class-harmony--in short, the "sanctity"--of rural life, a myth that was a key component of Nazi propaganda that helped secure support for the Third Reich in rural areas. Of great interest to historians and students of the period as well as anyone interested in how a fringe radical movement gained wide popular support.

Recenzje

Her carefully researched study, based on a wealth of widely dispersed archival source material, newspapers and memoirs, amounts to a powerful indictment of the Pomeranian Junkers and their willingness to join hands with the Nazis in areas where they perceived common aims ... her book is an intriguing and convincing argument, written in an accessible and clear style, which offers fascinating insights into the 'partial symbiosis' (p11) between National Socialism and Junkerdom in the final years of the Weimer Republic.