Includes bibliographical references (page 191-206) and index.
Introduction: The Pan-German League and the German Right -- In the Wake of War and Revolution -- The Bamberg Declaration -- First Steps -- Political Parties and the New System -- The Kapp Putsch -- The Völkisch Malaise, 1919-1924 -- Reinhold Wulle and Heinrich Class : Personal Differences -- The Growing Völkisch Divide -- General Erich Ludendorff -- The Founding of the Deutschvölkische Freiheitspartei -- Early Contacts : Adolf Hitler and National Socialism, 1920-1924 -- Forging the Relationship -- Class, Pöhner, Kahr, and Bavarian Politics -- The "Beer Hall" Putsch and its Aftermath -- The Demands of Party Politics, 1919-1925 -- The DNVP's Early History and the "Völkisch Secession" of 1922 -- Internal and External Challenges to the DNVP in 1924 -- From the Dawes Plan Vote to the December 1924 Elections -- 1925 : The DNVP in Government -- Withdrawal from the Luther Cabinet -- The Campaign for Alfred Hugenberg, 1926-1928 -- Laying the Foundation : Heinrich Class and Personal Political Influence -- The "Class Putsch" and Right-Wing Politics, 1926-1927 -- Toward a Change in DNVP Leadership, 1927-1928 -- The Collapse of the Non-Nazi Right, 1929-1939 -- The Anti-Young Plan Campaign and the Radicalization of the DNVP -- From the Harzburg Front to the Nazi Seizure of Power -- Between Conformity and Opposition in the Third Reich -- Conclusion