The Fateful Alliance: German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933: The Machtergreifung in a New Light. By Hermann Beck. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2008. Pp. xvii þ 352. Cloth $90.00. ISBN13: 978-1-84545-496-8.

摘要

This revisionist history of the Nazi seizure of power argues, contrary to mostnprevious interpretations, that there was no alliance of Nazis and conservativesnin the winter and spring of 1933. Beck concedes that such an “alliance ofnelites” eventually came about in July 1933, but not as a voluntary partnershipnor a congruence of interests; rather the “fundamental shift in political orien-ntation” (p. xiii) on the part of the Bildungsbu ¨rgertum was the result of Nazinviolence and terror directed against conservatives, which earlier historiansnhave allegedly underestimated. The author of a well-received monograph