Posted on 15/12/07
Germany's short-lived Golden Age
WEIMAR GERMANYPromise and TragedyBy Eric D. Weitz Princeton University Press,432 pages. $29.97Why, after all these years, does Weimar Germany still fascinate us? As an experiment in democracy, it was singularly unsuccessful. It was, after all, the birthplace of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich. Its own birth was equally embarrassing: On Nov. 9, 1918, one politician stood on a balcony of the Reichstag and proclaimed a German republic, whereas another stood on the balcony of the former royal palace and proclaimed a free socialist republic.
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