William Sheridan Allen
William Sheridan Allen (1932-2013), a distinguished scholar of German history, traveled to the small town of Northeim in the 1950s to investigate the true nature of the Nazi Party's rise to power. There he conducted an exhaustive study of local newspapers, periodicals, reports, budget information, crime statistics, and court cases dating from 1922-1945. The Nazi Seizure of Power synthesizes Allen's research. Allen also edited and translated The Infancy of Nazism: The Memoirs of Ex-Gauleiter...See more
William Sheridan Allen (1932-2013), a distinguished scholar of German history, traveled to the small town of Northeim in the 1950s to investigate the true nature of the Nazi Party's rise to power. There he conducted an exhaustive study of local newspapers, periodicals, reports, budget information, crime statistics, and court cases dating from 1922-1945. The Nazi Seizure of Power synthesizes Allen's research. Allen also edited and translated The Infancy of Nazism: The Memoirs of Ex-Gauleiter Albert Krebs, 1923-1933. See less
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The Nazi seizure of power ; the experience of a single German town, 1930-1935
Important research on Nazi rise to power
An excellent, well written and meticulously researched examination of how the Nazi movement succeeded in taking over a democratic Weimar Germany 1931-1933, concentrating on one town. A " must read" ... Read More
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Nazi Seizure of Power
How the Nazis seized power
by baldwin, Jan 12, 2009
This book does exactly what is says on the tin. It follows the experience of a real small German town in rural Hannover between 1930 and 1933. In painstaking detail it shows how the Nazis grew from a ... Read More