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Title
The death of democracy
Other Titles (e.g. Variant)
Hitler's rise to power and the downfall of the Weimar Republic
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Hett, Benjamin Carter (author)
Subject
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
Hindenburg, Paul von, 1847-1934
Germany--Politics and government--1918-1933 (LCSH)
Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945 (LCSH)
Germany--Social conditions--1918-1933 (LCSH)
Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945 (LCSH)
Germany--History--1933-1945 (LCSH)
Democracy--Germany--History (LCSH)
Political leadership--Germany--History (LCSH)
National socialism--Germany (LCSH)
Germany--Politics and government--1918-1933 (CHILDRENSSUBJECTS)
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
Hindenburg, Paul von, 1847-1934
Political leadership--Germany--History
National socialism--Germany
Democracy--Germany--History
Germany--Politics and government--1918-1933
National socialism
Germany
1918-1945 (FAST)
Genre Form
Language
English (eng)
Illustrative Content
illustrations
plates
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Geographic Coverage
Classification
LCC: DD240 .H473 2018 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
Supplementary Content
bibliography (bibliography)
index (index)
Content
text (txt)
still image (sti)
Summary
"A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen. Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In [this book], Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time. To say that Hitler was elected is too simple. He would never have come to power if Germany's leading politicians had not responded to a spate of populist insurgencies by trying to co-opt him, a strategy that backed them into a corner from which the only way out was to bring the Nazis in. Hett lays bare the misguided confidence of conservative politicians who believed that Hitler and his followers would willingly support them, not recognizing that their efforts to use the Nazis actually played into Hitler's hands. They had willingly given him the tools to turn Germany into a vicious dictatorship. Benjamin Carter Hett is a leading scholar of twentieth-century Germany and a gifted storyteller whose portraits of these feckless politicians show how fragile democracy can be when those in power do not respect it. He offers a powerful lesson for today, when democracy once again finds itself embattled and the siren song of strongmen sounds ever louder"--Dust jacket
Table Of Contents
Cast of characters
Important political parties in the Weimar Republic
August and November
"Don't believe him, he's telling the truth"
Blood May and the creeper
The hunger chancellor
State of emergency
The bohemian private and the gentleman jockey
Coordination
"We have to get rid of him"
Authorized Access Point
Hett, Benjamin Carter The death of democracy
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