The Sanctity of Rural Life
Nobility, Protestantism, and Nazism in Weimar Prussia
1st Edition
Published on 6. April 1995
278 pages
978-0-19-536166-7 (ISBN)
Description
In this ground-breaking study, Shelley Baranowski not only explores how and why church-going Protestants in eastern Prussia turned to Nazism in large numbers, but also shows that the rural elite and the church propagated a myth of the stability, the wholesomeness, and the class-harmony--in short, the "sanctity"--of rural life, a myth that was a key component of Nazi propaganda that helped secure support for the Third Reich in rural areas. Of great interest to historians and students of the period as well as anyone interested in how a fringe radical movement gained wide popular support.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- I: HIERARCHY AND COMMUNITY
- 1. Foundations of Continuity: Pomeranian Agriculture and Landownership from the Reform Era to World War II
- Agriculture and Industrial Underdevelopment
- Noble Landownership and Marriage Patterns
- 2. Continuity Survives Revolution: Pomeranian Conservatism from the Reform Era to Stabilization
- A New Beginning?
- 3. Power and Obligation: Social Relations in the Estate Villages After the Revolution
- The Estate Community: From the Center to the Margins
- Born to Rule, Born to Serve
- The Politics of Proximity: The Referendum on Expropriation
- Personal Authority and Modernity: The Compatibility of Opposites
- 4. Social Constraints and Political Limitations: Pomerania's Evangelical Church
- Secularization Defied: Pomeranian Protestantism's Rural Roots
- The Sins of the Cities: Sectarianism and Moral Decline
- II: A WORLD COLLAPSES
- 5. Pomeranian Estate Owners, the Rural People Movement, and the Young Plan Referendum
- From Weakness to Disaster: Pomeranian Agriculture After Stabilization
- Political Pressures: The Dissolution of the Manorial Districts and the Left's Resurgence
- Peasant Wars and Junker Initiatives
- 6. Fluid Boundaries: Pomeranian Conservatism and the Nazi Onslaught
- Radicalism and Respectability: The Spread of Nazi Influence
- Succumbing to Right Radicalism: The Evangelical Church Relents
- Epilogue: Pyrrhic Victory: Pomeranian Conservatism in the Third Reich
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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