Nazi Ideology before 1933: A Documentation

from inside flap from inside flapthis volume brings together hitherto scattered and inaccessible body of material crucial to the understanding of the evolution of Nazi political thought. Until now scholars have virtually ignored the extensive writings and programs published by leading Nazi ideologues before 1933. Barbara Miller Lane and Leila J. Rupp have collected the political writings of Nazi terrorists-Dietrich Eckhart, Alfred Rosenberg, Gottfried Feder, Joseph Goebbels, Gregor and Otto Strasser, Heinrich Himmler, and Richard Walther Darre - during the period before the national Socialists came to power. The Strassers are given considerable space because of the great intellectual importance within the party before 1933. In commentary by the editors, the significance of each Nazi theorists is weighed and evaluated at each stage of the history of the partyLane and Rupp conclude that not see ideology, before 1933 at least, was not a consistent whole but a doctorate in the process of rapid development to which new ideas were continually Introduced. By the time the Nazis came to power, however, a group of interrelated assertions and official promises have been made to party followers and to the public. Hitler and the Third Reich had to accommodate this ideology, even when not implementing It. Hitler's role in the development of Nazi ideology, interpreted here as a very permissive one, is thoroughly assessed. His own writings, however, have been omitted since they are readily available elsewhere.....