How culture flowered, the economy collapsed and democracy died in the Weimar Republic

How culture flowered, the economy collapsed and democracy died in the Weimar Republic

Weimar Germany: Death of a Democracy by Victor Sebestyen In his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon suggested history is “little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind”. Victor Sebestyen’s outstanding account of the decline and fall of the Weimar Republic is subtitled Death of a Democracy, but might equally well have been called A Study in Crime, Folly and Misfortune. He reminds us of the appall…