Weimar Germany’s Vanishing Point: Politics, Violence, and the Rise of the Nazis, 1918–1933

doi:10.1017/9781108913614.017

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2025

Annemarie Sammartino

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Mark Roseman and

Dan Stone

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Mark Roseman: Affiliation:
Indiana University
Dan Stone: Affiliation:
Royal Holloway, University of London

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This chapter examines the political culture of the fragile Weimar Republic, focusing in particular on its tumultuous beginning and its calamitous end. Rather than narrating a story of unavoidable doom or one that focuses exclusively on Weimar’s cultural achievements, it stresses the complexity and the multifaceted crises that marked this era of German history. This essay considers the particularly German elements of the Weimar period but also the ways in which Germany’s post-First World War experience can be situated within a broader regional context.

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Weimar politics violence Nazis Great Depression revolution communists socialists

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Information: The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 288 - 308

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108913614.017 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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