This text presents a reappraisal of Germany between the wars examining thepolitical social and economic aims of the new democratic republic its failuredue to in... » 

This text presents a reappraisal of Germany between the wars examining thepolitical social and economic aims of the new democratic republic its failuredue to instability and lack of consensus and how that led to Nazism andeventually World War II. The author includes an examination of the legacy ofWorld War I and the Treaty of Versailles discussion of the early years ofcrisis culminating in the Ruhr Invasion and the Dawes Settlement assessment ofthe leadership of Stresemann and Bruning exploration of the circumstancesleading to the rise of Hitler analysis of economic social and culturaltrends and an outline of the historiography of and the changing attitudes ofhistorians to the Weimar Republic. «