Rehearsals for Fascism: Populism and Political Mobilization in Weimar Germany

by Peter Fritzsche

In this compelling and ambitious study, Peter Fritzsche analyzes the dramatic transformation of bourgeois politics before the Nazi breakthrough in 1930. Examining the local texture of civic life--market square protests, small town patriotism, and social clubs--as well as political parties and interest groups, Fritzsche provides a crucial perspective for understanding the fate of the Weimar republic, one which has been largely neglected by German historians...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195057805
• ISBN13: 9780195057805
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.6"