This is the seventh chapter of Varieties of Fascism as written by Professor Eugen Weber. Continuing with the nation-state case studies, Eugen Weber turns his attention to the most well-known if not also most errantly explained of them all, Germany. …
This is the seventh chapter of Varieties of Fascism as written by Professor Eugen Weber. Continuing with the nation-state case studies, Eugen Weber turns his attention to the most well-known if not also most errantly explained of them all, Germany. This chapter starts by briefly touching upon post World War I conditions that helped precipitate a society ripe for national socialist sympathies. Following this, Eugen Weber delves into Adolf Hitler's 'awakening' in Vienna, the place of the leader and race politics in national socialist Germany, and the rather orthodox socialist programs that were prime and promoted by the NDSAP. Programs such as maternity leave, state-subsidized vacations and camps, state-sponsored health care, and radical reformations and punishment for "capital" hoarding.
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In 1964, the world approached the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Eugen Weber, a Romanian born, French-educated, British Veteran, and now American professor, sat down to take in the impact of socialism, fascism, and national socialism on the 20th-century world. Having served with the British during the Second World War, Eugen Weber was no stranger to the violent upheaval these ideologies had, and indeed are having.
In the Narrator's opinion, the compilation of this work is invaluable in a current atmosphere of domestic ideological cleavings. Writing nineteen years after the Second World War, a war which Professor Weber fought in, this work has topical adjacency to the real physical manifestations of such phenomena. Additionally, written in the early sixties, the work does not suffer the estrangement and misdefinition of the terms it seeks to educate on.
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