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  title info:
    title: Hitler's true believers
    sub title: how ordinary people became Nazis
  name:
    name part: Gellately, Robert
    name part: 1943-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 443 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: What paths did true believers take to Nazism? Why did they join what was initially a small, extremist and often violent movement on the fringes of German politics? When the party began its election campaigning after 1925, why did people vote for it only grudgingly, though in the Great Depression years, make it the largest in the country? Even then, many millions withheld their support, as they would, if covertly, in the Third Reich. Were the recruits simply converted by hearing a spell-binding Hitler speech? Or did they find their own way to National Socialism? How was this all-embracing theory applied in the Third Reich after 1933 and into the catastrophic war years? To what extent did people internalize or consume the doctrine of National Socialism, or reject it? In the first half of the book I examine how ordinary people became Nazis, or at least supported the party and voted for it in elections down to 1933. We need to remember, that Hitler squeaked into power with the help of those in positions of power who wanted to get rid of democracy, "forever." Into the Third Reich I trace how the regime applied its teachings to major domestic and foreign political events, racial persecution and cultural developments, including in art and architecture, and how people reacted or behaved in that context. This story begins with a focus on Hitler. Like millions of others after Germany's lost war, he was psychologically adrift, searching for answers, and some kind of political salvation. How did he find the tiny fringe group, the German Workers' Party (DAP), that he and a few others transformed in 1920 into the imposing-sounding National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), or Nazi Party? Insofar as Hitler had fixed ideas at the end of the Great War in 1918, high on the list was nationalism, in spite of the aspersions cast against it by mutinous sailors and rebellious soldiers tired of the fighting. Some aspects of what became his doctrine or ideology, stemmed from the clus…
  table of contents: How Hitler Found National Socialist Ideas -- Early Leaders' Paths to National Socialism -- The National Socialist "Left" -- The Militants -- The Nazi Voters -- National Socialism Gains Power -- Embracing the Volksgemeinschaft -- Striving for Unanimity -- The Quest for a Cultural Revolution -- The Racist Ideology -- Nationalism and Militarism -- War and Genocide.
  note: Robert Gellately.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gx---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hitler, Adolf
      name part: 1889-1945
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: Nazis
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: National socialism
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Nationalism
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State
  classification: DD256.5 .G35675 2020
  classification: 324.243/0238
  identifier: 9780190689902
  identifier: 0190689900
  identifier: 9780190689926
  identifier: 2019041496
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191018
    record change date: 20201021155758.0
    record identifier: in00004256618