4th Edition
The study of democracy -- its historical roots, its economic and social prerequisites, its institutions and structures, and its ramifications for international relations -- is particularly important today. In Weimar Germany and the Rise of Hitler students have an opportunity to ponder the lessons for democracy from one of the 20th century's most troubling political legacies.

Weimar Germany and the Rise of Hitler asks students to see the world through the eyes of Germans in the Weimar era and to contemplate German political choices in 1932.Students examine the foundations of Western democracy and explore the political culture of Weimar Germany. In the end, students are compelled to consider why democracy failed to take root in a modern, industrialized society that had long been at the forefront of Western civilization, and how the carefully crafted parliamentary system of the Weimar Republic resulted in the triumph of Nazism.