Oral history interview with Frederick E. Gaupp, 1973 November 3.

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Gaupp, Frederick E., 1897-. Oral history interview with Frederick E. Gaupp, 1973 November 3.

Oral history interview with Frederick E. Gaupp, 1973 November 3.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/179923456

Interview with Frederick E. Gaupp, a college professor, concerning the experiences of a German intellectual during the period of the Weimar Republic and the early Hitler years. Gaupp discusses his middle-class family background, his service in World War I with a Rhenish artillery regiment, his education at the University of Breslau, the Sparticist uprising, Kapp Putsch, Freicorps activities, rampant inflation (1923-1924), and the effects of Allied reparations. He also talks about his employment with Ullstein (Berlin) publishing house, fighting between the Brown Shirts and the Communists, the role of the lower middle-class in supporting the Nazis, the Nazi suppression of Ullstein, and his decision to leave Germany in 1935.

70 leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT