By Donna Harsch
German Social Democracy and the increase of Nazism explores the failure of Germany's greatest political celebration to stave off the Nazi probability to the Weimar republic. In 1928 participants of the Social Democratic social gathering (SPD) have been elected to the chancellorship and hundreds of thousands of nation and municipal places of work. yet regardless of the party's obvious strengths, in 1933 Social Democracy succumbed to Nazi strength with no struggle. prior scholarship has blamed this reversal of fortune on bureaucratic paralysis, yet during this revisionist overview, Donna Harsch argues that the party's inner dynamics immobilized the SPD. Harsch seems to be heavily at Social Democratic ideology, constitution, and political tradition, studying how each one impinged upon the party's reaction to monetary catastrophe, parliamentary main issue, and the Nazis. She considers political and organizational interaction in the SPD in addition to interplay among the social gathering, the Socialist alternate unions, and the republican safeguard league. Conceding that lethargy and conservatism hampered the SPD, Harsch specializes in strikingly creative principles recommend by means of a variety of Social Democrats to deal with the republic's challenge. She exhibits how the unresolved pageant between those proposals blocked suggestions that will have thwarted Nazism.
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27 These ideologies drew on currents in the political culture or "collective mentality" of Social Democracy that also defy an easy radical/reformist classification. 28 As shown below, this consciousness was also a source of contention and confusion. To define Social Democratic consciousness, the historian has to analyze Social Democratic symbols and (oral and written) language. 30 On a practical level, these Vereinecultural, economic, and politicalworked for reforms to make contemporary society more equitable and democratic.
Nor did awareness of the Nazi threat constantly heighten: relapse and retreat to old verities followed periods characterized by intense concern and impressive insight. Page 17 Chapter One Social Democracy in 1928 Judging from its portrayal in popular novels, the SPD played a very different role on the Weimar stage than it did on the Imperial stage. Der Untertan, Heinrich Mann's satire of Wilhelmine Germany, characterizes the Social Democratic machinist Napoleon Fischer as a devious and double-dealing, but dangerous and effective, spokesman of the oppressed.
German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism DONNA HARSCH The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill & London � 1993 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Harsch, Donna. German social democracy and the rise of Nazism / by Donna Harsch.