Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Abbreviations vii
4. Introduction The Nazi Seizure of Power in Historical and Historiographical Perspective 1
5. Chapter 1 Taming the Nazi Beast: Kurt von Schleicher and the End of the Weimar Republic 23
6. Chapter 2 Ausnahmezustand, Staatsnotstandsplan, and Ermächtigungsgesetz: Reappraising Carl Schmitt’s Political Constitutionalism and the Demise of Weimar 52
7. Chapter 3 Ludwig Kaas and the End of the German Center Party 79
8. Chapter 4 The Nazi Seizure of Power in Bavaria and the Demise of the Bavarian People’s Party 111
9. Chapter 5 German Big Business and the National Revolution, 1933–34 141
10. Chapter 6 Violence against “Ostjuden” in the Spring of 1933 and the Reaction of German Authorities 163
11. Chapter 7 The SA in the Gleichschaltung: The Context of Pressure and Violence 194
12. Chapter 8 Nationalist Socialism against National Socialism? Perceptions of Nazism and Anti-Nazi Strategies in the Circle of the Neue Blätter für den Sozialismus, 1930–34 222
13. Chapter 9 Nationalism, Socialism, and Organized Labor’s Response to the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic 248
14. Chapter 10 From Collegiality to the Führerprinzip: The 1933 Introduction of the Episcopacy in the Hamburg Landeskirche 281
15. Chapter 11 Friedrich von Bodelschwingh and the Protestant Appeasement of the Nazi Regime, 1933–34 310
16. Chapter 12 In Search of Allies: Catholic Conservatives, the Alliance of Catholic Germans, and the Nazi Regime, 1933–34 339
17. Chapter 13 German Youth between Euphoria and Resistance: Political Coercion and the Coordination of German Youth 366
18. Chapter 14 “German Youth, Your Leader!” How National Socialism Entered Elementary Schools in 1933 394
19. Conclusion Reaffirming the Value of Political History 418
20. Index 435