Carl Weirich, a bookbinder, was one of many ordinary Germans who experienced the fall of the Weimar Republic.

In “Weimar Germany,” Victor Sebestyen focuses on the populist culture wars that brought an end to popular rule in the fledgling republic.

Volker Ullrich's book "Fateful Hours" examines the collapse of Germany's Weimar Republic. The book suggests democracies are fragile and can fail when citizens and leaders underestimate threats.

Nevertheless, in the preface to German historian Volker Ullrich’s new history, Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic, we hear that because “Democracies are fragile” and “can flip into ...

"Berlin has been defiled – shame on a people that considers itself among the world’s civilized.” This was the editorial in the social democratic daily Vorwärts, commenting on a pogrom enacted in the ...