Weimar Political Parties 1924 - 1928

Who were the political parties in Germany from 1924 - 1928, and what did they actually stand for? Let's find out!

Symbols

'Hand to the Friend, Fist to the Foe': The Struggle of Signs in the Weimar Republic
Simmons, S. (2000). 'Hand to the Friend, Fist to the Foe': The Struggle of Signs in the Weimar Republic. Journal of Design History, 13(4), 319-339. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.plymouth.edu/stable/3527066

Books Politics

The logic of evil : the social origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933 by William Brustein
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 1996
Why did millions of apparently sane, rational Germans join the Nazi Party between 1925 and 1933? In this provocative book, William Brustein argues that the Nazi Party's emergence as the most popular political party in Germany was eminently logical—that it resulted largely from its success at fashioning economic programs that addressed the material needs of a wide range of German citizens.Brustein has carefully analyzed a huge collection of pre-1933 Nazi Party membership data drawn from the official files at the Berlin Document Center. He argues that Nazi followers were more representative of German society as a whole—that they included more workers, more single women, and more Catholics—than most previous scholars have believed. Further, says Brustein, the patterns of membership reveal that people joined the Nazi Party not because of Hitler's irrational appeal or charisma or anti-Semitism, but because the party, through its shrewd and proactive program, offered more benefits to more people than did the other political parties in Weimar Germany. According to Brustein, Nazi supporters were no different from citizens anywhere who select a political party or candidate they believe will promote their economic interests. The roots of evil, he suggests, may be ordinary indeed.

Weimar Republic: The Freikorps

As the First World War ended and Germany had been defeated, paramilitary groups emerged. The Friekorps formed from German soldiers returning home from the war. Their beliefs were nationalist, anti-treaty of Versailles and anti-communist.

Why Did the Weimar Republic Collapse ?

A video about why the German Weimar Republic collapsed in 1933.

How to fail at democracy 101: Weimar Republic

How to fail at democracy 101: Weimar Republic [Explicit language]

Politics (Books)

Imagining a Greater Germany by Erin R. Hochman
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781501706066
Publication Date: 2016-10-04
The nationalization of democracy in the Weimar and First Austrian republics -- The search for symbols -- Representative democracy : commemorating the republics -- Staging a greater German republic : cross-border republican rallies -- Composing the Volk : cultural commemorations with political implications -- Anschluss before Hitler : the politics of the Österreichisch-Deutscher Volksbund.