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(5), Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
By: Benjamin Carter Hett
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-03-18
Language: English
Genre: History, Europe
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
Publisher's Summary
The Death of Democracy is a riveting audiobook account of how the Nazi Party came to power, and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen.
Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In this dramatic audiobook, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time.
To say that Hitler was elected is too simple. From the late 1920s, the Weimar Republic’s very political success sparked insurgencies against it, of which the most dangerous was the populist anti-globalization movement led by Hitler. But as Hett shows, Hitler would never have come to power if Germany’s leading politicians had not tried to coopt him, a strategy that backed them into a corner from which the only way out was to bring the Nazis in. Hett lays bare the misguided confidence of conservative politicians who believed that Hitler and his followers would willingly support them, not recognizing that their efforts to use the Nazis actually played into Hitler’s hands. They had willingly given him the tools to turn Germany into a vicious dictatorship.
Benjamin Carter Hett is one of America’s leading scholars of 20th-century Germany and a gifted storyteller whose portraits of these feckless politicians show how fragile democracy can be when those in power do not respect it. He offers a powerful lesson for today, when democracy once again finds itself embattled and the siren song of strongmen sounds ever louder.
©2018 Benjamin Carter Hett (P)2018 Macmillan Audio
Critic Reviews
"[Narrator Steven Crossley's] British accent gives his narration an academic-sounding quality fitting for the text. He is clear and precise in pronunciation and enunciation and is suitably expressive throughout." (AudioFile Magazine)
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by LiberalLesbo
on 2022-12-19 16:32:28
 | Thank you miok I know far too little of this period of history, especially European history, and I can't help but think that Americans have a great deal to learn from this period   |
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