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Vor dem soziokulturellen und sozialkonomischen Hintergrund sind die politischen Leistungen und Fehlleistungen der Republik zu diskutieren, deren Belastbarkeit erstaunt. Ihre Dauerkrise und ihr schlielicher Zusammenbruch erinnern daran, da der Modernisierungsproze selbst krisenhaft verluft, da die Phasen harmonischen Aufschwungs eher die Ausnahme sind und da die destruktiven und pathogenen Zge der Modernisierung jederzeit katastrophal ausbrechen knnen.

The nature of Weimar's terminal crisis - how a politically liberal and culturally progressive society could succomb to fascism - remains one of the central historical questions of our century. In this major work, Detlev J.K. Peukert offers a stimulating interpretation that not only places Weimar in the history of twentieth-century Germany but also reveals it as an archetype of the ambivalences and pathologies of advanced industrial society.

In this remarkable social history of the Third Reich, Detlev J. K. Peukert surveys how ordinary citizens evaded or accepted Nazi policies of repression, terrorism, and racism. Peukert discusses not only the popular consensus that supported Nazism but also the opposition of the German middle class, working class, and youth.
"A highly original and informative synthesis of the most exciting new scholarship on Nazi Germany. It gives an intimate insight into people's beliefs, aspirations, and fears, and it forces us to reassess how Hitler and Auschwitz were possible."--Mary Nolan, New...