This volume offers a comparative analysis of the two most important radical right-wing movements in Austria during the interwar period: Heimwehr and NSDAP. The book examines the movements from their emergence until they were incorporated into the existing power apparatus (Heimwehr) or forbidden (NSDAP). The analysis ends in 1934 after democracy was disabled, when the Austrian labour movement was violently put down and the NSDAP vainly made an attempted coup.
The author concludes that even though both the Heimwehr and NSDAP strained the democratic institutions they were not responsible for the eventual collapse of Austrian democracy. The main perpetrator was the Christian Social Party (Christlichsoziale Partei – CSP), which chose to abandon democracy to avoid handing over power or to share the power on other terms than its own. Later attempts to blame either the right-wing movements or to devise the idea of a “shared guilt” between the CSP and the Social Democrats should not deter from the facts. The Heimwehr was a project of the CSP – no matter how fervent it has tried to distance itself from it afterwards. The destruction of democracy paved the way for the smooth and successful Anschluss of Austria into the German Reich in March 1938.
Drawing on important archival material, this well-researched study is important reading for anyone interested in the interwar period and the machinations fermenting in the years building up to WWII.

Nazism and the Radical Right in Austria 1918-1934 (Danish Humanist Texts and Studies)

History

Lauridsen, John T

Europe

Museum Tusculanum Press

&nbsp; The German plenipotentiary in Denmark, Werner Best, reported back several times a day to the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin about conditions in occupied Denmark between November 1942 and May 1945. In the opposite direction came directives and correspondence from the German Foreign Office to Denmark. This correspondence makes up the core in this publication. The work is supplemented with primary sources from other German authorities, mainly from the the highest ranking officers of the Wehrmacht, the Navy, German Police and for the unit that held responsibility for dealing with munitions contracts with Danish businesses. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Werner Best was ordered, in April 1945, to burn his correspondence from the years 1942-1945. The letters have, however, been reconstructed after a thorough examination of especially Danish and German archives. During the research, many of the sources researchers once thought of as lost, have now been re-found. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This work consists of 10 volumes, containing 2,900 annotated documents - all in German and with Danish annotation - that together give a picture of how the occupying German forces regarded and dealt with occupied Denmark. The period was one of the bloodiest and most dramatic periods in modern Danish history. Most of the documents have never before been published, and many have as yet not been referenced by researchers of the period. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Volume 10 includes a dozen appendices with an overview of executions, German acts of terror, Danish workers in Germany, the prisoners of the Gestapo and Danes deported to Germany. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Furthermore, the work of Rector Dr. Aage Trommers on the incidences of railway sabotage is printed for the first time. The work was originally made for the rector's doctoral dissertation on the same subject in 1971.

Werner Bests korrespondance med Auswärtiges Amt og andre tyske akter vedrørende besættelsen af Danmark 1942-1945 / Die: Ten-volume work in German and Danish (Danish Humanist Texts and Studies)

Mejle, Jakob

Foreren Har Ordet!: Frits Clausen Om Sig Selv Og DNSAP (Danish Humanist Texts and Studies)

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