The Sanctity of Rural Life Nobility,

In this ground-breaking study, Shelley Baranowski not only explores how and why church-going Protestants in eastern Prussia turned to Nazism in large numbers, but also shows that the rural elite and the church propagated a myth of the stability, the wholesomeness, and the class-harmony--in short, the "sanctity"--of rural life, a myth that was a key component of Nazi propaganda that helped secure support for the Third Reich in rural areas. Of great interest to historians and students of the period as well as anyone interested in how a fringe radical movement gained wide popular support.

Shelly Baranowski is Associate Professor of History at the University of Akron.

Introduction	p. 3
Foundations of Continuity: Pomeranian Agriculture and Landownership from the Reform Era to World War II	p. 17
Agriculture and Industrial Underdevelopment	p. 18
Noble Landownership and Marriage Patterns	p. 27
Continuity Survives Revolution: Pomeranian Conservatism from the Reform Era to Stabilization	p. 35
A New Beginning?	p. 39
Power and Obligation: Social Relations in the Estate Villages After the Revolution	p. 51
The Estate Community: From the Center to the Margins	p. 55
Born to Rule, Born to Serve	p. 68
The Politics of Proximity: The Referendum on Expropriation	p. 78
Personal Authority and Modernity: The Compatibility of Opposites	p. 81
Social Constraints and Political Limitations: Pomerania's Evangelical Church	p. 83
Secularization Defied: Pomeranian Protestantism's Rural Roots	p. 85
The Sins of the Cities: Sectarianism and Moral Decline	p. 102
Pomeranian Estate Owners, the Rural People Movement, and the Young Plan Referendum	p. 117
From Weakness to Disaster: Pomeranian Agriculture After Stabilization	p. 118
Political Pressures: The Dissolution of the Manorial Districts and the Left's Resurgence	p. 126
Peasant Wars and Junker Initiatives	p. 128
Fluid Boundaries: Pomeranian Conservatism and the Nazi Onslaught	p. 145
Radicalism and Respectability: The Spread of Nazi Influence	p. 150
Succumbing to Right Radicalism: The Evangelical Church Relents	p. 171
Epilogue: Pyrrhic Victory: Pomeranian Conservatism in the Third Reich	p. 177
Notes	p. 187
Bibliography	p. 243
Index	p. 261
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The Sanctity of Rural Life Nobility, Protestantism, and Nazism in Weimar Prussia

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