Table of contents : Cover......Page 1 Half-title......Page 3 Title page......Page 5 Copyright information......Page 6 Dedication......Page 7 Table of contents......Page 9 List of Figures......Page 11 Acknowledgments......Page 13 List of Abbreviations......Page 17 Prologue: Setting the Stage......Page 21 1 Introducing the Protagonists: Hindenburg and Hitler......Page 31 2 Hindenburg and the Brüning Gambit......Page 75 3 The Road to Harzburg......Page 107 4 Parliamentary Prelude......Page 139 5 Agonies of the Paramilitary Right......Page 169 6 The Demise of Harzburg......Page 196 7 The Hindenburg Offensive......Page 225 8 Disarray on the Radical Right......Page 260 9 Not One, But Two Elections......Page 294 10 End of the Brüning Era......Page 334 Epilogue: From Papen to Hitler......Page 366 A. Unpublished Sources......Page 383 B. Published Sources......Page 387 C. Contemporary Political Periodicals and Newspapers......Page 388 D. Newspapers......Page 389 E. Memoirs, Diaries, and Collected Essays, Speeches, and Letters......Page 390 F. Contemporary Political Literature......Page 391 G. Secondary Literature......Page 396 Index......Page 415