ABSTRACT
The flourishing state of Vereine activities after the First World War left its imprint on South Baden. Despite these telltale signs of the malfunctioning of the Vereine, the consequences were largely restricted to the rural, relatively undeveloped regions of South Baden. The activities of the bourgeois Vereine there, never that flourishing to begin with, came to a virtual halt as a result of the severe economic crisis in this part of South Baden, while the activities of the bourgeois parties ceased altogether. The lessons of the period 1926 to 1928 were studied by both the Vereine and the organizations that supported Nazi Party. The weakness of the bourgeois camp found expression first and foremost in the disintegration of its political representation. The collapse of the bourgeois parties was the culmination of the process that led to the disintegration of the bourgeois infrastructure and provides a key to understanding the success of the Nazi Party in the region in 1932.
