Weimar Prussia, 1925-1933: The Illusion of Strength
By Dietrich Orlow.
Description
The rise of the Nazis in popularity and Hitler's appointment as the Chancellor in 1933 have overshadowed the larger history of Weimar Germany, especially the politics of the state called the "rivet" of the nation - Prussia - which paradoxically enjoyed a strong democratic government for 15 years before the Nazis' seizure of power. Orlow's first volume, "Weimar Prussia 1918-1925: the Unlikely Rock of Democracy", sought to explain why parliamentary democracy succeeded at the Prussian state level when it failed in the Reich; far from being "doomed" ...
ISBN(s)
0822936844, 9780822936848
