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Ο θάνατος της δημοκρατίας: Η πτώση της Βαϊμάρης και η άνοδος του ναζισμού by Benjamin Carter Hett
breadguy's review against another edition
4.0
The concluding paragraph:
"Few Germans in 1933 could imagine Treblinka or Auschwitz, the mass shootings of Babi Yar or the death marches of the last months of the Second World War. It is hard to blame them for not foreseeing the unthinkable. Yet their innocence failed them, and they were catastrophically wrong about their future. We who come later have one advantage over them: we have their example before us.
(Bolding is mine.)
"Few Germans in 1933 could imagine Treblinka or Auschwitz, the mass shootings of Babi Yar or the death marches of the last months of the Second World War. It is hard to blame them for not foreseeing the unthinkable. Yet their innocence failed them, and they were catastrophically wrong about their future. We who come later have one advantage over them: we have their example before us.
(Bolding is mine.)
murfmonkey's review against another edition
3.0
This is one of a slew of books about Hitler’s rise to power. It’s okay, but not as good as “Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power,” which I read a couple of months back. This one has a little broader view than Takeover, but isn’t quite as focused overall. That it has application to today is beyond doubt. A couple of relevant quotes:
“The sharp-eyed political reporter Konrad Heiden was also frustrated by his own inability to make his readers grasp the Nazi’s contempt for truth and to counter their lies effectively.”
Or:
“Similarly, judges, lawyers, and the law were among the things Hitler most despised, and his regime was one long assault on the rationality, predictability, and integrity of the law.”
Say what you will about the Supreme Court decision about the President and his absolute immunity in some areas and presumed immunity in others, but it’s undeniable that after this decision, there is one person in the United States who stands above he law. Hitler would have liked that.
I’ll finish with this last quote which aptly demonstrates the danger of giving any person dictatorial power:
“Walter Kiaulehn, a seasoned Berlin reporter, concluded an elegiac book about his native city written after the war with the words, ‘First the Reichstag burned, then the books, and soon the synagogues. Then Germany began to burn, England, France, Russia…’”
Let the reader beware.
“The sharp-eyed political reporter Konrad Heiden was also frustrated by his own inability to make his readers grasp the Nazi’s contempt for truth and to counter their lies effectively.”
Or:
“Similarly, judges, lawyers, and the law were among the things Hitler most despised, and his regime was one long assault on the rationality, predictability, and integrity of the law.”
Say what you will about the Supreme Court decision about the President and his absolute immunity in some areas and presumed immunity in others, but it’s undeniable that after this decision, there is one person in the United States who stands above he law. Hitler would have liked that.
I’ll finish with this last quote which aptly demonstrates the danger of giving any person dictatorial power:
“Walter Kiaulehn, a seasoned Berlin reporter, concluded an elegiac book about his native city written after the war with the words, ‘First the Reichstag burned, then the books, and soon the synagogues. Then Germany began to burn, England, France, Russia…’”
Let the reader beware.
paigemcloughlin's review against another edition
4.0
Recounting of the fall of the Weimar Republic and the political machinations that put Hitler and the Nazis in power and established a vicious genocidal dictatorship. Important to forensically analyze the death of democracy.
sassypants859's review against another edition
4.0
History is repeating itself. In America and around the world. Fascism is returning.
bwaycatherine's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.75