Who Voted For Hitler?

✍ Scribed by Richard F. Hamilton

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 682
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Challenging the traditional belief that Hitler's supporters were largely from the lower middle class, Richard F. Hamilton analyzes Nazi electoral successes by turning to previously untapped sources--urban voting records. This examination of data from a series of elections in fourteen of the largest German cities shows that in most of them the vote for the Nazis varied directly with the class level of the district, with the wealthiest districts giving it the strongest support.

Originally published in 1982.

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Maps and Tables
Abbreviations and Names
Acknowledgments
1. The Problem: Who Voted for Hitler?
2. A Review of the Literature
3. A Reconsideration of Previous Evidence
4. Berlin
5. Hamburg
6. Cologne and Munich: A Second Pattern
7. Cities of the Ruhr
8. Five Other Cities
9. The Summer Election: Travelers and Vacationers
10. The Parties of the Right and Center
11. The Parties of the Left
12. The National Socialists
13. The Character of the Political Struggle
14. The Weimar Catastrophe
Appendix A. The Reichstag Elections: 1919-1933
Appendix B. Germany's Largest Cities
Appendix C. Occupational Structures of the Cities Studied in Chapters 4-8
Notes
Name Index
Subject Index