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WEIMAR GERMANY: Chaos, Culture and the Collapse of Democracy. Katja Hoyer and Victor Sebestyen reviewed
wo new books on Weimar Germany arrive at once: Victor Sebestyen’s Weimar Germany: Death of a Democracy and Katja Hoyer’s Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe.
Antonia Senior and Roger Moorhouse discuss the fragile republic born after the First World War, the cultural explosion of 1920s Berlin, hyperinflation, the Great Depression, Hindenburg, Hitler’s rise to power, and the question historians return to again and again: how did ordinary people live through — and sometimes enable — the collapse of democracy?
Sebestyen offers a sweeping political and cultural history of the Weimar Republic…
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