The Respectable Career of Fritz K. : : The Making and Remaking of a Provincial Nazi Leader /

The Respectable Career of Fritz K. : : The Making and Remaking of a Provincial Nazi Leader / / Cornelia Rauh, Hartmut Berghoff.

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Entrepreneur and Nazi functionary Fritz Kiehn lived through almost 100 years of German history, from the Bismarck era to the late Bonn Republic. A successful manufacturer, Kiehn joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and obtained a number of influential posts after 1933, making him one of the most powerful N...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Berghoff, Hartmut,
Rauh, Cornelia,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Studies in German History ; 18
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Kiehn’s Rise to the Middle Class: A Traveling Salesman Becomes a Factory Owner
  • Chapter 2 Rapid Ascent through the Nazi Ranks: From Local Party Leader to Reichstag Delegate
  • Chapter 3 Between Gleichschaltung and the Part y Purge of 1934: Fritz Kiehn Becomes “Leader of the Württemberg Economy”
  • Chapter 4 Riding Nazi Part y Coattails: Kiehn’s Industrial Ambitions
  • Chapter 5 Between Corruption and Camaraderie: The National Socialist Campaign to Curb Abuses
  • Chapter 6 Kiehn and Gustav Schickedanz in the Race for Aryanization
  • Chapter 7 Wartime Deals and “Marriage Politics”
  • Chapter 8 “The King of Trossingen” Fritz Kiehn as a Local Grandee in the Third Reich
  • Chapter 9 From “War Criminal No. 1” to Sought-After Employer
  • Chapter 10 “Scot-Free, by the Skin of Their Teeth” Denazification and Compensation
  • Chapter 11 “Ripe for Satire” Entering the Social Market Economy with Public Loans
  • Chapter 12 “Kiehn Left No One Behind”? The “Factory Community” as a Network of “Old Comrades”
  • Chapter 13 Honored Citizen Again Kiehn and the “Economic Miracle”
  • Chapter 14 The Twilight Years of an Honored West German
  • Chapter 15 Coming to Terms with the Past in the Twenty-First Century
  • Conclusion: The (A)Typical Life of an Industrialist?
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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