Hitler's Party Comrades

The NSDAP Party Members, 1919-1945
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-87296-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 628 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Second World War History

This study is the first to analyze both the Nazi party’s membership development and composition and the motives for joining and the exoneration strategies of former party members chosen during the denazification process.

The book examines how many members joined the party between 1919 and 1945 (over 10 million), how many left (more than 750,000), and how many the party lost through death in World War II. Furthermore, the question of whether the NSDAP was a middle-class or a catch-all party, the latter being closer to the truth, is linked to the thesis of whether party members predominantly belonged to the frontline fighter generation, or the generation of war children born between 1900 and 1915. The study is based on the most comprehensive sample to date, more than 50,000 cases, from both central NSDAP membership registers, covering Germany, Austria and the occupied Czech territories. The book also presents a unique analysis of the influence of the denominational context, the dominant local economic sector and the extent of mass unemployment on the recruitment success of the National Socialists.

Hitler’s Party Comrades is a comprehensive guide to understanding the Nazi party and will be of interest to scholars and students of World War II and European history.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falter, Jurgen W.

Falter, Jürgen W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Who was allowed to become an NSDAP member?  2. Membership development  3. Demography of NSDAP members: gender, age, marital status, size of town and denomination  4. The social composition of party members  5. The special case of Austria  6. The Reichsgau Sudetenland  7. Entry and exit motives  8. Summary and conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Jürgen W. Falter is professor emeritus of political science, University of Mainz, Germany. He is one of the leading experts on the members and voters of the German Nazi party. His most important book on the topic is Hitlers Wähler (Hitler's Voters, 2nd ed. 2020).