German Exile Politics

The Social Democratic Executive Committee in the Nazi Era provides a comprehensive and deeply researched account of the German Social Democratic Party's (S.P.D.) resistance during one of the most turbulent periods in modern history. As Germany's largest and most influential political party for decades, the S.P.D. faced the unprecedented challenge of surviving Adolf Hitler's rise to power and the subsequent outlawing of the party in 1933. This book chronicles the party's efforts to reconcile its