Lives Between Two Catastrophes Following Ordinary Germans Through the Weimar Republic's Turbulent Years, 1919-1933, Via Diaries, Letters, and Daily Struggles for Survival and Meaning
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ePUB
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Nein
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Altersempfehlung
1 - 99 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
27.01.2026
Verlag
EpubliSeitenzahl
188 (Printausgabe)
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1902 KB
Auflage
2. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9783565198900
The Weimar Republic unfolded not in grand political pronouncements alone, but in the lived experiences of people navigating impossible choices: a factory worker deciding whether to join a strike amid inflation that devoured wages overnight, a Jewish shopkeeper watching former neighbors embrace antisemitic rhetoric, a cabaret performer balancing artistic freedom against rising censorship demands, a war veteran unable to reconcile military defeat with civilian accusations of betrayal.
This book reconstructs the Republic through personal testimonies that reveal how political chaos translated into daily uncertainty. It follows a middle-class family watching their savings evaporate during hyperinflation, forced to sell possessions for bread while politicians debated reparations. It traces a single mother's navigation of new social welfare programs while facing judgment from traditional communities. It examines a university student's radicalization as economic prospects collapsed and extremist movements offered belonging and purpose. It explores an artist's conflicting impulses toward experimentation and commercial survival in Berlin's explosive cultural scene.
Drawing on personal diaries, private correspondence, oral histories, memoirs written decades later, and photographic documentation of everyday moments, it captures the Republic's contradictions: unprecedented creative freedom alongside political violence, progressive social reforms alongside economic devastation, cosmopolitan urban culture alongside rural resentment, hope for democratic renewal alongside cynicism about institutional failure. It reveals how ordinary people made sense of dizzying change, formed political allegiances, maintained dignity amid humiliation, and witnessed their society's disintegration.
This is not a story of inevitable descent into dictatorship, but of individuals confronting choices whose consequences they could not fully grasp.
This book reconstructs the Republic through personal testimonies that reveal how political chaos translated into daily uncertainty. It follows a middle-class family watching their savings evaporate during hyperinflation, forced to sell possessions for bread while politicians debated reparations. It traces a single mother's navigation of new social welfare programs while facing judgment from traditional communities. It examines a university student's radicalization as economic prospects collapsed and extremist movements offered belonging and purpose. It explores an artist's conflicting impulses toward experimentation and commercial survival in Berlin's explosive cultural scene.
Drawing on personal diaries, private correspondence, oral histories, memoirs written decades later, and photographic documentation of everyday moments, it captures the Republic's contradictions: unprecedented creative freedom alongside political violence, progressive social reforms alongside economic devastation, cosmopolitan urban culture alongside rural resentment, hope for democratic renewal alongside cynicism about institutional failure. It reveals how ordinary people made sense of dizzying change, formed political allegiances, maintained dignity amid humiliation, and witnessed their society's disintegration.
This is not a story of inevitable descent into dictatorship, but of individuals confronting choices whose consequences they could not fully grasp.
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