The thanks of the fatherland : German veterans after the Second World War / James M. Diehl
German veterans never embraced the Weimar Republic, created out of the ruins of World War I. Former soldiers demanded a state that was militant, nationalist, and authoritarian, and their rejection of the new democratic Republic played a major role in its collapse and the Nazi rise to power. After Hi...
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| Hauptverfasser: | Diehl, James M. |
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | Chapel Hill ; London : University of North Carolina Press, [1993] © 1993 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | German veterans never embraced the Weimar Republic, created out of the ruins of World War I. Former soldiers demanded a state that was militant, nationalist, and authoritarian, and their rejection of the new democratic Republic played a major role in its collapse and the Nazi rise to power. After Hitler's defeat, German veterans again represented a source of social instability and a potential threat to democracy |
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| Beschreibung: | xii, 345 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 0807820776 |
