Nazi Ideology before 1933: A Documentation

Published by University of Texas Press 1978

Nazi Ideology before 1933

A Documentation

Edited by: Barbara Miller Lane and Leila J. Rupp

https://doi.org/10.7560/755123

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This volume brings together a hitherto scattered and inaccessible body of material crucial to the understanding of the evolution of Nazi political thought. Before the publication of this volume, scholars had virtually ignored the extensive writings and programs published by leading Nazi ideologues before 1933. Barbara Miller Lane and Leila J. Rupp have collected the political writings of Nazi theorists—Dietrich Eckart, Alfred Rosenberg, Gottfried Feder, Joseph Goebbels, Gregor and Otto Strasser, Heinrich Himmler, and Richard Walther Darré—during the period before the National Socialists came to power. The Strassers are given considerable space because of their great intellectual importance within the party before 1933. In commentary by the editors, the significance of each Nazi theorist is weighed and evaluated at each stage of the history of the party.

Lane and Rupp conclude that Nazi ideology, before 1933 at least, was not a consistent whole but a doctrine in the process of rapid development to which new ideas were continually introduced. By the time the Nazis came to power, however, a group of interrelated assertions and official promises had been made to party followers and to the public. Hitler and the Third Reich had to accommodate this ideology, even when not implementing it. Hitler’s role in the development of Nazi ideology, interpreted here as a very permissive one, is thoroughly assessed. His own writings, however, have been omitted since they are readily available elsewhere.

The twenty-eight documents included in this book illustrate themes and phases in Nazi ideology which are discussed in the introduction and the detailed prefatory notes. Long selections, as often as possible full-length, are provided to allow the reader to follow the arguments. Each selection is accompanied by an introductory note and annotations which clarify its relationship to other works of the author and other writings of the period. Also included are original translations of the “Twenty-Five Points” and a number of little-known official party statements.

Author / Editor information

Barbara Miller Lane is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Professor Emeritus of History at Bryn Mawr College. Leila J. Rupp is Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Men! Dietrich Eckart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Twister Dietrich Eckart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
Guidelines of the German Workers' Party Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
The Russian Jewish Revolution Alfred Rosenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Jewishness in and around Us: Fundamental Reflections Dietrich Eckart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
Manifesto for Breaking the Bondage of Interest Gottfried Feder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
To All Working People! Dietrich Eckart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
The Social State Gottfried Feder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
The Program of the NSDAP Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Jewish World Policy Alfred Rosenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
The Folkish Idea of State Alfred Rosenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
National Socialism or Bolshevism? Joseph Goebbels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
The Radicalizing of Socialism Joseph Goebbels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Draft of a Comprehensive Program of National Socialism Gregor Strasser and Joseph Goebbels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Thoughts about the Tasks of the Future Gregor Strasser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Farmer, Wake Up! Heinrich Himmler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
From Revolt to Revolution Gregor Strasser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
National Socialism and the State Otto Strasser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
The Peasantry as the Key to Understanding the Nordic Race R. W. Darré Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
The Fourteen Theses of the German Revolution Otto Strasser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Marriage Laws and the Principles of Breeding R. W. Darré Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Official Party Statement on Its Attitude toward the Farmers and Agriculture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
German Freedom as the Prerequisite of Folk Culture Alfred Rosenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
The Nature and Aim of the National Socialist Idea Gregor Strasser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
The Farmers and the State R. W. Darré Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Work and Bread! Gregor Strasser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Appendix: Biographies of the Principal Nazi Writers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Translators' Note Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175

Languages: English, English, German
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Copyright year: 1978
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 208

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Published: December 15, 2014
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