Unplanned in the Fall: Jens Bisky on the Weimar Republic

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Unplanned in the Fall: Jens Bisky on the Weimar Republic

Weimar is not Berlin. Or is it? Jens Bisky has written a book about the transition to the dictatorship from 1929 to 1934, whose reading is worthwhile especially for the Bundestag election of 2025 Anyone who says Weimar today is always asking about Berlin. The question whether the Berlin Republic is flourishing in the face of a seemingly inexorably stronger nationalist party than the Weimar Republic at that time is as tempting as it is treacherou…