Product DescriptionA thorough critical history of the DDP and DStP based on archival research that reveals new information about the failure of the German middle classes in politics. Frye demonstrates that the DDP had a significance much greater than its following might suggest. Within its ranks were some of Germany’s most influential intellectuals, academics, and publicists. It was the party that made the most notable contribution to the Weimar Constitution and was most in tune with its values. The DDP represented many contradictory political and intellectual influences: nationalism as well as internationalism and pacifism; reverence for individualism as well as statism. In time these internal contradictions tore the party apart. The failure of the German middle classes to build a moderate political party and their tendency to move to the extreme right reveals much about the German middle classes, the failure of liberalism, and the rise of nazism.
Liberal Democrats in the Weimar Republic: The History of the German Democratic Party and the German State Party
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