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Allen was born in Evanston, Illinois, and studied at the universities of Michigan, Connecticut, and Minnesota, and in Germany at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Göttingen.
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William Sheridan Allen's research provides an intimate, comprehensive study of the mechanics of revolution and an analysis of the Nazi Party's subversion of democracy. Beginning at the end of the Weimar Republic, Allen examines the entire period of the Nazi Revolution within a single locality. Tackling one of the 20th century's greatest dilemmas, Allen demonstrates how this dictatorship subtly surmounted democracy and how the Nazi seizure of power encroached from below. Relying upon legal records and interviews with primary sources, Allen dissects Northeim, Germany with microscopic precision to depict the transformation of a sleepy town to a Nazi stronghold. In this cogent analysis, Allen argues that Hitler rose to power primarily through democratic tactics that incited localized support rather than through violent means. Allen's detailed, analysis has indisputably become a classic. Revised on the basis of newly discovered Nazi documents, The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945 continues to significantly contribute to the understanding of this prominent political and moral dispute of the 1900s. William Sheridan Allen (1932-2013), a distinguished scholar of German history, traveled to the small town of Northeim in the 1950s to investigate the true nature of the Nazi Party's rise to power. There he conducted an exhaustive study of local newspapers, periodicals, reports, budget information, crime statistics, and court cases dating from 1922-1945. The Nazi Seizure of Power synthesizes Allen's research. Allen also edited and translated The Infancy of Nazism: The Memoirs of Ex-Gauleiter Albert Krebs, 19232-1933.
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In The Nazi Seizure of Power, Allen argues that the seizure of power in the small town of Thalburg was because of the town's structure, the fact that the Nazis were able to appeal to the middle and lower class and the fact the Social Democratic Party could not counter the rapid growth of the Nazis.
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Allen was born in Evanston, Illinois, and studied at the universities of Michigan, Connecticut, and Minnesota, and in Germany at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Göttingen.
Bachelor of Arts Michigan, 1955. Master of Arts, University Connecticut, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy, University Minnesota, 1962.
The Nazi Seizure of Power (1965) was his first book He retired in 2001 as professor of history at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Allen wrote two books on Adolf Hitler debunking the assertion that he came to power through violence.
Rather, Allen claims, Hitler"s Nazi movement "seized power" in an act akin to democratic tactics.
His most famous book, The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town 1930-1935, was written to explain how one city, (Northeim, Germany) fell into the Nazi trap. Federation by Nazi propaganda, many people of Northeim, especially in the middle classes, in the midst of the Depression saw the Nazis as a way to get their country back to greatness that Hitler and the Nazis promised they would do.
The book was widely reviewed and extremely influential.
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He also wrote The Infancy of Nazism and worked on studies of the effectiveness of Nazi propaganda and of the Social Democratic underground in the Third Reich.
Vice president Holocaust Resources Center, Buffalo, 1985-1990. President Buffalo chapter United University professors, 1978-1981. Publicity chairman Buffalo Group Amnesty International, 1985-1987.
Director Parkside Federal Credit Union, Buffalo, 1986-1987;organizer Socialist Party American, Columbia, 1961-1967, Member American History Association, German Studies Association, American Conference Irish Studies, New York State Association European Historians (president 1983-1984), United University Professions, Bison City Yacht Club (Buffalo).
Married Karen Miller, January 9, 1982. Children: Caitilyn, Jefferson, Rebecca, Claire.