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Eric D. Weitz, “Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Eric D. Weitz, “Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy” (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Length:
62 minutes
Released:
Nov 20, 2018
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Podcast episode
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What can the Weimar Republic teach us about how democracies fail? How could the same vibrancy that gave us cultural touchstones spawn Nazism? In his new book Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (Princeton University Press, 2018), Eric D. Weitz challenges the belief that the fledgling democracy was doomed to fail. In...
Released:
Nov 20, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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