Volker Ullrich's book "Fateful Hours" examines the collapse of Germany's Weimar Republic. The book suggests democracies are fragile and can fail when citizens and leaders underestimate threats.
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Weimar’s golden boom hid the crisis beneath it
Germany looked stable and prosperous in 1928, but the Weimar Republic was already built on fragile loans, rural anger, and political mistrust. The so-called Golden Twenties brought modern cities, mass ...
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Hitler falls short as Weimar democracy starts to collapse
Germany’s July 1932 election did not give Hitler the chancellorship, but it pushed Weimar democracy closer to the edge. Street violence, emergency rule, and backroom deals left the republic weaker ...
Nevertheless, in the preface to German historian Volker Ullrich’s new history, Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic, we hear that because “Democracies are fragile” and “can flip into ...
A history tracing the inter-war experiences of people in the city of Weimar during the rise of the Nazis fascinates, but its ...
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