Germany Tried Democracy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393002805)

This book takes a good long look at that chaotic brand of democracy that characterized the Weimar Republic. It opens with a chapter on Bismarck's empire of 1871-1914, when Wagner was glorifying everything German, Nietzche was developing the German power complex, and depressions were already being blamed on the Jews. From that point there is a play-by-play description of the political happenings: the formation of innumerable parties; the influence of dozens of leaders from the right, the left, and the center; the making of the peace; the dictates of Wilson; the establishing of the Republic; civil war; Versailles; the first sounds from Adolf Hitler; the Dawes Plan; the presidency of von Hindenburg; the Young Plan; the Great Depression; the first major triumph of the Nazis; Hitler's Dusseldorf speech; von Hindenburg's re-election and the advance of the Nazi tide; and finally the advent of Adolf Hitler himself.

Author: S. William Halperin, Samuel W. Halperin
ISBN-10: 0393002802
ISBN-13: 9780393002805
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1965
Pages: 580
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.29d