In 1934 Theodore Abel went to Germany and offered a prize, under
the auspices of Columbia University, for autobiographies of members
of the National Socialist movement. The six hundred essays he
received constitute the single best source on grassroots opinion
within the Nazi Party, and they form the empirical foundation for
Abel's fascinating yet curiously neglected 1938 book. Although a
number of scholars have drawn on these reports, Abel's own
treatment has never been surpassed. Of particular value is his
presentation of the life histories of a worker, a soldier, an
anti-Semite, a middle-class youth, a farmer, and a bank clerk, all
of whom explain in their own words why they joined the NSDAP. In
the vast literature on National Socialism, no more useful or
revealing testimony exists.
In a new Foreword, Thomas Childers discusses how the past
half-century of research and writing on Nazi Germany has uphold
Abel's original insights into the broad appeal of the National
Socialist movement, thereby reaffirming this work's enduring value
for students of the topic.
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