Adolf Hitler was a master of manufacturing public-security crises to advance his authoritarian agenda. He used inflammatory ...

Weimar Germany’s political life was as tumultuous as its cultural scene was vibrant. ... Hindenburg kept juggling chancellors in pursuit of economic and political stability.

Old Paul von Hindenburg and “Iron Cross” Briining decided that it did. With a Presidential decree invoking Article 48 in his pocket, the Chancellor faced the Reichstag for a showdown on Budget ...

Hindenburg accepted Hitler's new power, ... and appeasement by those around him helped Hitler demolish the democracy of the Weimar Republic in only 53 days.

Richard Scully, 'Hindenburg: The Cartoon Titan of the Weimar Republic, 1918-1934' (German Studies Review, 35/3, 2012) Colin Storer, A Short History of the Weimar Republic (Revised Edition ...

Harald Jähner’s new history of the Weimar era vividly portrays and endorses this spirit of excess. Its very title, “Vertigo,” fittingly conjures the sensation of spinning dizziness.(It’s ...

Hindenburg added that he also had no intention of “inserting Reich Governors into the business of state governments.” Still, rumors of Hitler’s designs on Bavaria’s sovereign authority ...

Richard Scully, 'Hindenburg: The Cartoon Titan of the Weimar Republic, 1918-1934' (German Studies Review, 35/3, 2012) Colin Storer, A Short History of the Weimar Republic (Revised Edition ...