The Object Lesson: The Division of the German Left and the Triumph of National Socialism

Autor:	Stephen Salter
Rok vydání:	1987
Předmět:	Weimar Republic media_common.quotation_subject Opposition (politics) Social Democratic Party Nazism language.human_language German Politics Working class Political science Political economy language Social science Communism media_common
Zdroj:	The Popular Front in Europe ISBN: 9780333484258 The Popular Front in Europe ISBN: 9781349185542
DOI:	10.1007/978-1-349-10618-9_2
Popis:	It is perhaps one of history’s more tragic ironies that the organised German working class, which Lenin had expected to be the spearhead of revolution in the advanced industrialised states of Europe, and which was confronted in the early 1930s by a conservative reaction whose hostility to the organised labour movement was uniquely unambiguous, was never able to present a united opposition to Nazism and was to suffer one of the greatest political defeats in the history of modern labour movements. This chapter explores three themes: first, the failure of the social democratic and communist parties in Germany to present a united opposition to Nazism before 1933; second, the process whereby these parties were eliminated as political forces to be reckoned with; and, third, the extent to which the two parties of the Left were able to maintain underground resistance to the National Socialist regime after March 1933.
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