Significant recent research on the German Right between 1918 and 1933 calls into question received narratives of Weimar political history. The German Right in the Weimar Republic examines the role that the German Right played in the destabilization and overthrow of the Weimar Republic, with particular emphasis on the political and organizational history of Rightist groups as well as on the many permutations of right-wing ideology during the period.  In particular, antisemitism and the so-called “Jewish Question” played a prominent role in the self-definition and politics of the right-wing groups and ideologies explored by the contributors to this volume.
 

Significant recent research on the German Right between 1918 and 1933 calls into question received narratives of Weimar political history. The German Right in the Weimar Republic examines the role that the German Right played in the destabilization and overthrow of the Weimar Republic, with particular emphasis on the political and organizational history of Rightist groups as well as on the many permutations of right-wing ideology during the period.  In particular, antisemitism and the so-called “Jewish Question” played a prominent role in the self-definition and politics of the right-wing groups and ideologies explored by the contributors to this volume.
 

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Introduction: The German Right in the Weimar Republic: New Directions, New Insights, New Challenges
Larry Eugene Jones

Chapter 1. Hindenburg and the German Right
Wolfram Pyta

Chapter 2. From Friends to Foes: Count Kuno von Westarp and the Transformation of the German Right
Daniela Gasteiger

Chapter 3. Conservative Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic: A Case Study of the German National People’s Party
Larry Eugene Jones

Chapter 4. Academics and Radical Nationalism: The Pan-German League in Hamburg and the German Reich
Rainer Hering

Chapter 5. Realms of Leadership and Residues of Social Mobilization: The Pan-German League, 1918-1933
Björn Hofmeister

Chapter 6. Continuity and Change on the German Right: The Pan-German League and Nazism, 1918-1939
Barry A. Jackisch

Chapter 7. Weimar’s “Burning Question”: Situational Antisemitism and the German Combat Leagues, 1918-1933
Brian E. Crimm

Chapter 8. Antisemitism and the “Jewish Question” in the Political Worldview of the Catholic Right
Ulrike Ehret

Chapter 9. Eugenics and Protestant Social Thought in the Weimar Republic: Friedrich von Bodelschwingh and the Bethel Institutions
Edward Snyder

Chapter 10. Carl Schmitt and the Weimar Right
Joseph W. Bendersky

Notes on Contributors
Select Bibliography of New and Standard Works on the History of the German Right, 1918-1933
Index