Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-284) and index.
Contents
Ultramontanism and its discontents : the "peculiarities" of Munich's prewar Catholic tradition -- The path toward positive Christianity : religious identity and the earliest stages of the Nazi movement, 1919-1920 -- Embodying positive Christianity in Catholic Munich : the ideal of religious Catholicism and early Nazi growth, 1920-1922 -- A "Catholic-oriented movement"? The zenith of Catholic-Nazi activism, 1922-1923 -- The Beerhall Putsch and the transformation of the Nazi movement after 1923.
Summary
"Derek Hastings illuminates an important and largely overlooked aspect of Nazi history, revealing National Socialism's close, early ties with Catholicism in the years immediately after World War I, when the movement first emerged."--Jacket.