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Fall, 2006
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REVIEWS

SECTION 3
POLITICS AND LAW

Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin, 1929–1933. By Pamela E. Swett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvi plus 337 pp.).
Many of our current understandings of how the Nazi regime functioned after 1933 would not have been possible without the perspectives provided by the "history of everyday life" (Alltagsgeschichte). Alltagsgeschichte has shown that ordinary Germans were not passive objects of Nazi rule but historical subjects who actively participated in the construction of the Nazi dictatorship. Alltagsgeschichte has less often been deployed in historians' attempts to understand Hitler's rise to power before 1933. Some historians have concentrated on the reasons why more and more Germans came to vote for Hitler. Others have focused upon the conservative elites who lifted Hitler into power because they wanted to destroy Weimar democracy and replace it with an authoritarian system. Historians interested in the role played by German workers have pointed to the disastrous effects of the divisions between Social Democrats and Communists which prevented a broad front of organized resistance to Nazism. Few have, however, investigated the relationship between the dissolution of the Weimar Republic and the "politics of everyday life" in working-class neighborhoods during the Depression. The achievement of Pamela E. Swett's challenging new book is to show that this question deserves more attention than it has so far received. . . .
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