The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945

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Allen's study of the rise and fall of Nazism in Germany chooses to concentrate on a single small town in Saxony, to see in detail how a civilised democracy could be plunged into a nihilistic dictatorship. A work of microhistory, this text is comparable perhaps with Montaillou in its readability. (Google Books review) PART ONE: THE DEATH OF THE DEMOCRACY: 1922 TO JANUARY 1933 CHAPTER 1 The Setting 3 CHAPTER 2 The Anatomy of the Town 11 CHAPTER 3 Enter the Nazis 23 CHAPTER 4 Exploiting Victory 41 CHAPTER 5 Authoritarians Unite 53 CHAPTER 6 The Depths of the Depression 69 CHAPTER 7 Political Crescendo 91 CHAPTER 8 Things Fall Apart 107 CHAPTER 9 The Last Winter 129 PART TWO: INTRODUCING THE DICTATORSHIP JANUARY 1933 TO MAY 1945 CHAPTER 10 The Last Elections 151 CHAPTER 11 The Uses of Electoral Success 169 CHAPTER 12 The Terror System 183 CHAPTER 13 ' Whipping Up Enthusiasm 201 CHAPTER 14 The Atomization of Society 217 CHAPTER 15 The Positive Aspect 233 CHAPTER 16 Reaction and Resistance 239 CHAPTER 17 From Enthusiasm to Ritual 249 CHAPTER 18 The Great Justification 265 CHAPTER 19 Life in the Third Reich 281 CHAPTER 20 Conclusions 293