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"[G]ripping, immaculately researched . . . In Mr. Ullrichs account, the murderous behavior of the Reichs last-ditch loyalists was not a reaction born of rage or of stubbornness in the face of defeatcommon enough in warbut of something that had long a
Otto von Bismarck (1815-98) has gone down in history as the Iron Chancellor, a reactionary and militarist whose 1871 unification of Germany set Europe down the path of disaster to World War I. But as Volker Ullrich shows in this new edition of his accessi
Democracies are fragile. Freedoms that seem secure can be lost. Few historical events illustrate this as vividly as the failure of the Weimar Republic. Germanys first democracy endured for fourteen tumultuous years and culminated with the horrific rise of
In a bunker deep below Berlins Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945Hitler by gunshot to the temple, Braun by ingesting cyanide. But the Führers suicide did not instan
Vom Untergang einer Demokratie - Volker Ullrich erzählt die Geschichte Weimars für unsere Zeit Demokratien sind fragil. Freiheiten, die fest errungen scheinen, können verspielt werden. Wenige historische Ereignisse verdeutlichen dies so eindringlich wie d
1923 - GESCHICHTE EINES EXTREMEN JAHRES «Kein Volk der Welt hat erlebt, was dem deutschen -Erlebnis entspricht», schrieb Sebastian Haffner im englischen Exil, und Stefan Zweig befand, dass die Geschichte noch «nie eine ähnliche Tollhauszeit in solchen rie
The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography: "I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection, has it produced such madness in such gigantic proportions." He was referring to Germany in 1923,