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Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933 - Fight for the Streets and Fear of Civil War (Hardcover, English Ed.)
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Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933 - Fight for the Streets and Fear of Civil War (Hardcover, English Ed.)
Series: Studies in German History
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A comprehensive analysis of political violence in Weimar Germany
with particular emphasis on the political culture from which it
emerged. "Today's readers, living in what Charles Maier calls 'a
new epoch of vanished reassurance', will find this book absorbing
and troubling."-The Historian The Prussian province of Saxony-where
the Communist uprising of March 1921 took place and two Combat
Leagues (Wehrverbande) were founded (the right-wing Stahlhelm and
the Social Democratic Reichsbanner)-is widely recognized as a
politically important region in this period of German history.
Using a case study of this socially diverse province, this book
refutes both the claim that the Bolshevik revolution was the prime
cause of violence and the argument that the First World War's
all-encompassing "brutalization" doomed post-1918 German political
life from the very beginning. The study thus contributes to a view
of the Weimar Republic as a state in severe crisis but with
alternatives to the Nazi takeover. From the introduction: After the
phase of civil war, political violence assumed a distinctly limited
form. It was no longer aimed at killing or wounding as many
opponents as possible; instead, it served political parties and
organizations as an instrument for exerting pressure in the
struggle over control of the street. This development was driven by
the Combat Leagues (Wehrverbande) of all political camps, who, with
their uniforms and marches, injected militaristic elements into the
political culture. However, since the violence they perpetrated
followed a political and not a military logic, it was, as I will
show, in principle controllable and did not pose a fundamental
threat to the political order, not even in 1932, that particularly
turbulent year before Hitler's assumption of power.
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