Focusing on Marburg, a contentious university town where voters demonstrated strong electoral support for Adolf Hitler's National Socialist party, this imaginative study discusses the political role of small-town organizational life and painstakingly reconstructs the full range of Nazi sympathizers' cross-affiliations with local voluntary groups.
Rudy Koshar is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Germany's Transient Pasts: Preservation and National Memory in the Twentieth Century.
