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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Glossary
I. The Road to Greater Germany
1 Before the Ostmark
2 The Austrians and the Anschluss
II. From Anschluss to War
3 The Nazi Populace: Between Acclamation and Disappointment
4 The Working Class: Acceptance and Apathy
5 Austrian Catholicism: Antipathy and Accommodation
6 The Farming Populace: Anger and Anguish
7 The Popular Assault on the Jews
III. The Austrian People and Hitler’s War
8 A Distant Conflict
9 Between Stalingrad and the Moscow Declaration
10 Conquest and Collapse, 1944—1945
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Hitlers

Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era,

U38-W45

Evan Bun Bukey

The University o f North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London

© 2000

The University o f North Carolina Press All rights reserved Set in Monotype Garamond and Modula types by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Manufactured in the United States o f America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability o f the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library o f Congress Cataloging-in-Publicadon Data Bukey, Evan Burr, 1940Hider’s Austria : popular sentiment in the Nazi era, 1938—1945 / by Evan Burr Bukey.

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p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8078-2516-6 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-8078-5 363-1 (pbk.: alk. paper)

i. National socialism—Austria. 2. Hider, Adolf, 1889-1945. 3. Austria—History—Anschluss, 1938. 4. Antisemitism—Austria. I. Tide. DB99.B87

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CONTENTS

Preface, ix Acknowledgments, xiii Abbreviations and Glossary, xv P A R T I. T H E R O A D TO G R E A T E R G E R M A N Y

1 Before the Ostmark, 3 2 The Austrians and the Anschluss, 2/ P A R T I I . F R O M A N S C H L U S S TO W A R

3 The Nazi Populace: Between Acclamation and Disappointment, 43 4 The Working Class: Acceptance and Apathy, 77 5 Austrian Catholicism: Antipathy and Accommodation, 93 6 The Farming Populace: Anger and Anguish, 112 7 The Popular Assault on the Jews, 131 PART II I. TH E A U S T R IA N PEOPLE A N D H IT L E R ’S WAR

8 A Distant Conflict, 1939-1943, /// 9 Between Stalingrad and the Moscow Declaration, 186 i o Conquest and Collapse, 1944—1945,210 Epilogue, 227 Notes, 233 Bibliography, 283 Index, 307

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1 Population Distribution into Main Economic Sectors, 19 2 Nazi Party Occupational Composition, 1923-1933,-// 3 Nazi Party Occupational Composition, 1933-1938>46 4 Occupational Proportion of Nazi Party Members in Selected Segments of Austrian Society, 1933—1941,47 5 Unemployed in Austria, 19 38-1939,7/ 6 Church Resignations in Austria, 19 38-194 5, /o