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“The Center Cannot Hold.” Educational Politics and the Collapse of the Democratic Middle in Germany: The School Bill Crisis in Baden, 1927–1928

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Stephen G. Fritz
Stephen G. Fritz*
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Weimar Germany. The words conjure images of ineffectual leaders and stopgap governments, of a haphazard democratic way station en route to Hitler and National Socialism. Historians have probed and assessed the weaknesses—sociological, political, economic, psychological—that bedeviled this ill-fated system. The chief defect oftentimes is judged to be a weak and divided middle class, which proved incapable of acting as a moderating and stabilizing force of the political center. A variety of studies have pinpointed the political and economic fragmentation of the German bourgeoisie. Another, not insignificant, factor helped split the bourgeois middle in Weimar Germany. Educational differences founded upon the clash between advocates of religious and secular schooling acted as a serious hindrance to bourgeois political cooperation.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , Winter 1985 , pp. 413 - 437
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Copyright © 1986 by History of Education Society 

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