Larry Eugene Jones is Professor of Modern European History at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. He is the author of German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System, 1918-1933 (1988), and Hitler versus Hindenburg (2015).

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: The Nazi Seizure of Power in Historical and Historiographical Perspective
Hermann Beck and Larry Eugene Jones

Chapter 1. Taming the Nazi Beast: Kurt von Schleicher and the End of the Weimar Republic
Larry Eugene Jones

Chapter 2. Ausnahmezustand, Staatsnotstandsplan, and Ermächtigungsgesetz: Reappraising Carl Schmitt's Political Constitutionalism and the Demise of Weimar
Joseph W. Bendersky

Chapter 3. Ludwig Kaas and the End of the German Center Party
Martin Menke

Chapter 4. The Nazi Seizure of Power in Bavaria and the Demise of the Bavarian People's Party
Winfried Becker

Chapter 5. German Big Business and the Nazi Revolution, 1933-34
Peter Hayes

Chapter 6. Violence against 'Ostjuden' in the Spring of 1933 and the Reaction of German Authorities
Hermann Beck

Chapter 7. The SA in the Gleichschaltung: The Context of Power and Violence
Bruce B. Campbell

Chapter 8. Nationalist Socialism against National Socialism?: Perceptions of Nazism and Anti-Nazi Strategies in the Circle of the Neue Blätter für den Sozialismus, 1930-34
Stefan Vogt

Chapter 9. Nationalism, Socialism, and Organized Labor's Response to the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic
William L. Patch, Jr.

Chapter 10. From Collegiality to the Führerprinzip: The 1933 Introduction of the Episcopacy in the Hamburg Landeskirche
Rainer Hering

Chapter 11. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh and the Protestant Appeasement of the Nazi Regime, 1933-34
Edward Snyder

Chapter 12. In Search of Allies: Catholic Conservatives, the Alliance of Catholic Germans, and the Nazi Regime, 1933-34
Larry Eugene Jones and Kevin P. Spicer

Chapter 13. German Youth between Euphoria and Resistance: Political Coercion and the Coordination of German Youth
André Postert

Chapter 14. "German Youth, Your Leader!": How National Socialism Entered Elementary Schools in 1933
Katharine Kennedy

Conclusion: Reaffirming the Value of Political History
Hermann Beck and Larry Eugene Jones

Index