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"Anfälligkeit" der Angestellten - "Immunität" der Arbeiter? Mythen über die Wähler der NSDAP [1990]
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Abstract "This contribution challenges the often-cited middle-class thesis that concerns the idea of the NSDAP party being a movement mainly rooted in the German white-collar environment. According to this thesis, working-class members were rather immune to the ideas of National Socialism before 1933, wherea... view more
"This contribution challenges the often-cited middle-class thesis that concerns the idea of the NSDAP party being a movement mainly rooted in the German white-collar environment. According to this thesis, working-class members were rather immune to the ideas of National Socialism before 1933, whereas white-collar employers were attracted to it at a rate above average. The author rejects this notion as part of historical mythmaking and folk-pedagogical intentions. A critical reassessment of interpretations before and after 1945 concerning NSDAP electoral success shows a tendency to come to allegedly obvious conclusions without necessary empirical data. Examining the results of historical voter and election research, the author comes to the conclusion that the NSDAP was not a middle-class phenomenon, and that members of the working class were not at all as underrepresented among NSDAP voters as claimed by the middle-class thesis." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
voting behavior; salaried employee; German Reichstag; people's party; Weimar Republic (Germany, 1918-33); election research; working class; middle class; voter; National Socialist German Workers' Party; method; science of history; en: floating voter oder swing voter?
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Document language
German
Publication Year
2013
Page/Pages
p. 90-110
Journal
Historical Social Research, Supplement (2013) 25
Issue topic
Zur Soziographie des Nationalsozialismus
ISSN
0936-6784
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed