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Responses to Nazism in Britain, 1933-1939 : before war and holocaust

Title: Responses to Nazism in Britain, 1933-1939 : before war and holocaust / Dan Stone.
Author: Stone, Dan, 1971-
Publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

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Description

xi, 269 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"How was Nazism discussed in the 1930s? Studies of the period have traditionally focused on the politics of appeasement, on British and German foreign policy, or on the British Union of Fascists. Through a study of a large body of neglected literature, Responses to Nazism in Britain, 1933-1939 reveals that a far broader range of responses was made and debated. From remarkably sophisticated philosophical analyses to pro-Nazi apologias, with all shades of opinion in between, the British reading public was presented with a picture of Nazism that was, if anything, more advanced than that put forward by the government and its main supporters in the press. Combining history of ideas and cultural history, the author suggests that, before the war and the Holocaust, not a day went by when the shape and substance of British cultural and political debates were not informed by what was happening in Germany."--Jacket.

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Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-262) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Responding to Nazism, 1933-1939 -- pt. I. Explanations Pro and Contra -- The Energy of Nihilism: Understanding the Appeal of Nazism -- Predicting War? The Place of War in Interpretations of Nazism, 1933-1939 -- The Quintessence of Nazism? The Third Reich and the Jews, 1933-1939 -- pt. II. The Cultural Politics of the British Right -- The Reasons of the Intellectuals -- The British Far Right and the Back-to-the-Land Movement -- The English Array, the BUF and the Dilemmas of British Fascism.

ISBN

0333994051
9780333994054

LCCN

2003048606
9780333994054
99807124920

OCLC

ocm51984876
51984876
SCSB-13651744

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library