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.

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.