The German Communists and the Rise of Nazism

Download or read book The German Communists and the Rise of Nazism written by C. Fischer and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-04-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this radically revisionist work Conan Fischer investigates how the public brawling between Communists and Nazis during the Weimar Era masked a more subtle and complex relationship. It examines the way in which the National Socialists' growth across traditional class and regional barriers came to threaten the Communists on their home ground and forced them to adopt increasingly precarious, compromising strategies to confront this challenge. Encouraged by Moscow, they ascribed a qualified legitimacy to grass-roots Nazism which justified fraternisation with Hitler's ordinary supporters.