The Nazi seizure of power
the experience of a single German town, 1930-1935.
by William Sheridan Allen · first published 1965
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This intimate, detailed, and comprehensive study in the mechanics of revolution, based upon in-depth interviews and documentary sources, has become a classic. Now it has been revised on the basis of newly discovered Nazi documents, which have not been seen by any other historian. - Back cover.
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> I don’t remember hearing that non-Nazis were loudly opposing the Nazis. They definitely did. > I don’t know German history very well Indeed. It's worth revisiting. _The Nazi Seizure of Power_ by William Sherman Allen is available in a variety of formats and may be an accessible starting point for this. It does directly contain examples of resistance and opposition to Nazis, before, during,…
on “Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE” ↗…~1880 to 1933, and does a great job of explaining how ordinary Germans at the time were living their lives and the greater cultural shifts that gave way to the minority-populist uprising that was the Nazi seizure of power. Way more insightful place to start, in my opinion.
on “Pre-WWI Britain harbored many of the preconditions for fascism” ↗