Jankowski’s All Against All and Robert Gerwarth’s November 1918

are two of the most stimulating histories of the interwar period to have been published in recent years.

Because we know that the period ended in the most destructive war in history, it is tempting to conclude that this outcome was foreordained in events 10 or 20 years earlier. 

Such determinism often comes with an assumption that there was something inevitable about the collapse of Germany’s democratic Weimar Republic


Heinrich Brüning Popular mythology in Germany has it that the Weimar hyperinflation of 1922-23 led directly to the rise of Hitler. 



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