The nature of Weimar\'s terminal crisis - how a politically liberal and culturally progressive society could succomb to fascism - remains one of the central historical questions of our century.
Peukert offers a stimulating interpretation that not only places Weimar in the history of twentieth-century Germany but also reveals it as an archetype of the ambivalences and pathologies of advanced industrial society..
In this major work, Detlev J.
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The nature of Weimar\'s terminal crisis - how a politically liberal and culturally progressive society could succomb to fascism - remains one of the central historical questions of our century