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Strukturwandlungen des österreichischen Nationalsozialismus (1904-1945)
Structural Changes in Austrian National Socialism, 1904-1945
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Abstract In the effort to determine whether and to what extent the Austrian National So-cialist Party was indigenous to Austria or primarily a German import, a quanti-tative analysis of party membership shows that the NSDAP in Austria was less attached to a specific social group than any other contemporary p... view more
In the effort to determine whether and to what extent the Austrian National So-cialist Party was indigenous to Austria or primarily a German import, a quanti-tative analysis of party membership shows that the NSDAP in Austria was less attached to a specific social group than any other contemporary party. In a sense it was a "very modern political phenomenon," a conglomeration of nearly all classes, with those middle classes overrepresented, which had a certain anti-liberal tradition and felt extremely disadvantaged. Once it became a mass movement, it was an "asymmetrical populist party" that adapted its character according to the exigencies of time and place, except that it rarely appealed to the workers of the left.... view less
Keywords
Austria; fascism; membership; National Socialist German Workers' Party; party supporter; social structure; Nazism
Classification
General History
Social History, Historical Social Research
Document language
German
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 214-240
Journal
Historical Social Research, Supplement (2016) 28
Issue topic
Gerhard Botz - Zeitgeschichte zwischen Politik, Biografie und Methodik: Gewalt und Nationalsozialismus in Österreich im 20. Jahrhundert
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.suppl.28.2016.214-240
ISSN
0936-6784
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed