From Weimar to Auschwitz

by Hans Mommsen

In this book Hans Mommsen analyzes perhaps the most appalling political journey of the twentieth century--the road traversed by the German people as the Weimar Republic collapsed and Nazism emerged. Mommsen is one of the foremost political historians writing today, and these are some of his finest essays. Examining the problem of how the relatively hopeful beginnings of a German democracy in 1918 and 1919 ended finally in catastrophe, the pieces here...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691031983
• ISBN13: 9780691031989
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"