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An Areal Study of the German Electorate, 1930–1933

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

James K. Pollock
James K. Pollock
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University of Michigan
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A great deal has been said as to whether Hitler is really representative of the German people. Books have been written to show that he is merely the latest in a long line of German romanticists, racialists, and Pan-Germans. In most of these studies, the German people are lumped together in one mass without much differentiation. In analyzing public attitudes, however, it is desirable to be as particular and specific as possible, and to break up opinion groups into all their component parts. Therefore, without desiring to minimize the emphasis already placed on the evil influences which have had such a strong and continuing effect upon the generality of Germans and the course of their history, it is proposed here to study German political opinions district by district during a critical period. It is the purpose of this investigation to ascertain whether German voters reacted uniformly as a mass when they were presented with a crucial decision. Did the reawakening of German nationalism and Pan-Germanism by Hitler evoke a uniformly strong response throughout the length and breadth of the country, or were the German people genuinely divided in their attitude toward Nazism—the latest version of rampant German nationalism?

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Foreign Government and Politics
Information
American Political Science Review , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , February 1944 , pp. 89 - 95
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1944

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References

1 For an excellent statistical study of German Reichstag elections, 1871–1933, see this Review, Vol. 37, pp. 601–625.

2 The official election statistics have been used: Statistik des Deutschen Reichs, Band 382, II, Die Wahl zum Reichstag am 14. September 1930; and Hauptergebnisse der Wahlen zum Reichstag am 31. Juli 1932, 6. November 1932, and 5. Marz 1933.

3 Statistik des Deutschen Reichs, Band 427, Die Wahl des Reichspräsidenten am 13. März und 10. April 1932.

4 See map in Zeitschrift für Geopolitik, Vol. 91, p. 231 (1932).

5 See The Journal of Politics, Vol. 5, pp. 3–26 and 115–141, for the studies of Schleswig-Holstein, , and Schmahl-Seipel, , Entwicklung der völkischen Bewegung (Geissen, 1933)Google Scholar, for the study of Hesse.

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