Social Policy in the Third Reich

by Mason, Timothy W.; Caplan, Jane

• ISBN13: 9780854964109
• ISBN10: 085496410X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-09-01
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

Translated from the German by John BroadwinThis book analyzes the attitudes and policies of the Nazi leadership towards the German working class. The author argues that the regime did not securely integrate the working class and was thus less successful in imposing mass economic sacrifices in the interests of forced rearmament. With a growing labour shortage in the late 1930s, industrial conflict re emerged. These two factors slowed down military preparations for war and may well, it is argued, have influenced Hitler's foreign policy in 1938/39.The author has added a substantial epilogue to this edition in which he responds to the main criticisms, aroused by the German original, and assesses the relevance of more recent research to the arguments put forward.

Author Biography

Tim Mason is formerly of St Peter's College,Oxford.

Table of Contents

General Introduction
Editor's Note
Editor's Acknowledgements
Preface to the German Edition
List of Abbreviations
Introduction to the English Edition	p. 1
The Legacy of 1918 for National Socialism	p. 19
National Socialism and the Working Class, 1925 to May 1933	p. 41
The Transformation of Class Relations	p. 88
The Condition of the Working Class in Germany, 1933-1936	p. 109
Social Policy and Social Ideology, 1934-1936	p. 151
Social Policy, Rearmament and War, September 1936 to December 1939	p. 179
Epilogue: 2. Class	p. 284
Epilogue: 3. Domestic Crisis and War, 1939	p. 294
Epilogue: 4. 1939-1945	p. 331
Appendix: List of Documents Reprinted in Arbeiterklasse und Volkgemeinschaft	p. 370
Bibliography: 1. Unpublished Sources	p. 384
Bibliography: 2. Official Publications	p. 386
Bibliography: 3. Books	p. 388
Bibliography: 4. Articles and Unpublished Theses	p. 411
Index	p. 425
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