Download or read book The Sanctity of Rural Life written by Shelley Baranowski and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study identifies the contributions of the rural elite in the eastern Prussian provinces, namely Junker landlords and the Protestant clergy, to the rise of National Socialism in a region where the rural electorate's attraction to the Hitler movement became critical to the Nazi takeover in 1933.