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Article: From Weimar to Hitler: Germany, 1918-1933.
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- The Historian
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- January 1, 1994
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By E. J. Feuchtwanger. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Pp. ix, 376.$45.00.
The political history of the Weimar Republic is one of considerable complexity, and it can easily leave both students and scholars bewildered. The great contribution of this new survey of the period is that it provides a cogent guide to the tangle of fragile coalitions, short-lived chancellorships, and party fragmentation which dominated Germany's political landscape in the years before Hitler. E. J. Feuchtwanger's successful treatment of Weimar politics is weakened, however, by neglect of the era's cultural and social history. While not an entirely successful effort at a synthetic ...