Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and role of one of the most significant figures in early 20th Century German history. Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934) had been famous since 1914 as the ...
Nevertheless, in the preface to German historian Volker Ullrich’s new history, Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic, we hear that because “Democracies are fragile” and “can flip into ...
Weimar - Der eine hob die erste deutsche Demokratie mit aus der Taufe, der andere war Steigbügelhalter für Hitler: Friedrich Ebert und Paul von Hindenburg waren die Reichspräsidenten in der Weimarer ...