num_pages: 256
description: The Weimar Republic and the Rise of Hitler synthesizes and evaluates the complex historiography of its subject. It explores the major themes and debates and draws widely on a great deal of research, in particular by German scholars, which is not available in English.Three distinctive approaches to the history of the Weimar Republic are the perception of Weimar democracy as being crippled at birth by the survival of pre-modern elites and structures embedded in German society; the claim that the Republic fell as a result of a crisis of capitalism; therepresentation of the failure of the Weimar Republic as emanating from the 'crisis of classical modernity'. The tensions between these different approaches continue to exercise historians and run through the bulk of the book.
language: English
title: The Weimar Republic and the Rise of Hitler
titlecomplete: The Weimar Republic and the Rise of Hitler
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Hodder Arnold