The Weimar Republic

In this clear yet vivid narrative, Helmut Heiber cuts through accepted ideas and presents the period in its own terms. Focusing on the dramatic succession of political and social events, he throws new light on the vexing problems of hyperinflation, national apathy, economic collapse and political disorder. In doing so he provides a searching analysis of why the German people should have tolerated and largely embraced the pagan, racialist and anti-democratic ideology inculcated and ruthlessly enforced by Hitler's National Socialists.