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

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. 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. Preface Contents Introduction The Third Reich and Its Social Promises The Third Reich and Its Social Ideology The Third Reich and Labor The Third Reich and Business The Third Reich and Agriculture The Third Reich and Women The Third Reich and the State The Third Reich and Social Opportunity The Third Reich and Society Appendixes Bibliography Index 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. The author analyzes Hitler's appeal for farmers, workers, businessmen, industrialists, women and youth--back cover By David Schoenbaum. Reprint Of The 1st Ed., 1966, Published By Doubleday, Garden City, N.y. Based On The Author's Thesis, Oxford. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [295]-310. The concept of a sick society causes problems if only because no one knows exactly what constitutes social health. Traces the impact of the Third Reich in various areas of German society