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A review by mariatrader
The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic by Benjamin Carter Hett
informative
slow-paced
5.0
Eh...I don't want to rate this highly because it made me feel very anxious and worried while reading. I found I had to pause every few days to put this down and take a break before returning. If we weren't living in the world we are right now in America I would read this with a different lens, but alas. Unfortunately I saw far too many parallels between German politics and Hitler's actions in the 1930's with how second Trump administration is shaping up this past month+. The criticisms and hatred of 1930's Jews and Marxists vs. immigrants and DEI of 2025, the use of legal and constitutional executive actions granting more presidential power under the guise of "protection", and the propaganda and conspiracy theories. Hopefully we don't end up with the same result and our parallels diverge soon. I'll end this with quoting the last paragraph of this well-worthy read:
"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. Is it 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."
"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. Is it 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."