Beyond Glitter and Doom
Hung, Jochen / Weiss-Sussex, Godela / Wilkes, Geoff
The Weimar Republic has received more attention in academic research and popular culture than almost any other period in German history. Nevertheless, its prevailing historical image remains surprisingly simplistic: it is often seen as an era of accelerated cultural progress on the one hand and extreme political unrest, social upheaval and economic crisis on the other, a view epitomized in the ubiquitous image of the ¿dance on the volcano¿.The...