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Epilogue

The Price of Disunity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2020

Larry Eugene Jones
Affiliation:
Canisius College, New York
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The epilogue examines the implications of right-wing disunity upon the course of German political development from 1930 to 1933. The progressive disintegration of the DNVP from 1924 to 1930 left the non-Nazi German Right deeply divided and incapable of holding the more radical elements on the German Right that found a home in the NSDAP in check. This was a fact of German political life that became increasingly clear in the period from the September 1930 elections through the end of the Weimar Republic. The disunity and impotence of the traditional German Right left conservative strategists like Westarp, Schleicher, and Reusch with no alternative but to embrace the “taming strategy” as the best way of addressing Nazism and the threat that it posed to the status of Germany’s conservative elites. But the very success of this strategy presupposed the existence of a force capable of holding the NSDAP in check and in subjecting the Nazis to its own political agenda. The absence of such a force doomed the “taming strategy” to failure and greatly facilitated the Nazi seizure of power in 1932–33.

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The German Right, 1918–1930
Political Parties, Organized Interests, and Patriotic Associations in the Struggle against Weimar Democracy
, pp. 589 - 597
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Epilogue
  • Larry Eugene Jones, Canisius College, New York
  • Book: The German Right, 1918–1930
  • Online publication: 21 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108643450.020
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  • Epilogue
  • Larry Eugene Jones, Canisius College, New York
  • Book: The German Right, 1918–1930
  • Online publication: 21 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108643450.020
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  • Epilogue
  • Larry Eugene Jones, Canisius College, New York
  • Book: The German Right, 1918–1930
  • Online publication: 21 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108643450.020
Available formats
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