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Class and Community in the Third Reich

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The Plough and the Swastika: The NSDAP and Agriculture in Germany1928–45. By FarquharsonJ.. London: Sage Publications, 1976. Pp. viii+312. £9.00.
Sozialpolilik im Dritten Reich. By MasonT. W.. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1977. Pp. 374. DM 19.80.
Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. By SnyderL. L.. London: Robert Hale, 1976. Pp. xxiii+410. £8.95.

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

R. J. Overy
R. J. Overy
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Queen's College, Cambridge
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The Historical Journal , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , June 1979, pp. 493 - 503
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1 See Wippermann, W., ‘The post-war German Left and fascism’, Journal of Contemporary History, XI (1976), 185–219CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Vajda, Fascism as a mass movement, p. 15.

3 Ibid. pp. 19, 41.

4 Grunberg, E., ‘The mobilization of capacity and resources of small-scale enterprises in Germany’, Journal of Business, XIV (1941), XV (1942)Google Scholar; Egle, W., ‘The progress of mass production and the German small-scale industries’, Journal of Political Economy, XLVI (1938)Google Scholar.

5 Numbers rose from 1,307,000 in 1926 to 1,395,000 in 1931. See Grunberg, , ‘Small-scale enterprises’ (1941), pp. 334, 336–7Google Scholar.

6 Ibid. pp. 337–8.

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18 The completed stretches ran mainly north-south by 1939, not east-west. The figure Snyder gives of 70,000 working on the roads by the construction peak should be 120,000. Overy, ‘Transportation and rearmament in the Third Reich’, pp. 393–4.