German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism

German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism explores the failure of Germany''s largest political party to stave off the Nazi threat to the Weimar republic. In 1928 members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) were elected to the chancellorship and thousands of state and municipal offices. But despite the party''s apparent strengths, in 1933 Social Democracy succumbed to Nazi power without a fig...