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File Size: 14364 KB
Print Length: 289 pages
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (April 3, 2018)
Publication Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
ASIN: B075WYCC7B
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This book impressed me. At my age I regard William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich as the standard against which I hold most history books of that period. But The Death of Democracy xxwent into more detail about the internecine politics, the conspiracies, the backroom deals that went down in the final days of the Weimar Republic, anf an acerbic analysis of the politicians involved, with irony-laden modern style.There were three things that recurred throughout the book: the extreme and seemingly irreconcilable Party divisions, the revolt against reason, and the willingness of some people to believe anything. See any similarities? Nowadays we call this "post-factual."
It doesn’t require reading many pages of this faux-scholarship work to detect the author’s purpose. Contrary to what the author says in the introduction, his narrative does not depend on new gems emerging from historical archives. It depends rather on a deliberate attempt, disguised in mostly neutral prose, to convince the reader of the parallels between Hitler Germany and Trump America. Whatever one’s position on American politics today, such a parallel is unconvincing to anyone who has studied Hitler and the Weimar Republic in detail. The author states, for example, that one of Hitler’s purposes was to “make Germany great again.†True? Certainly. But why use those exact words? Even the title phrase, “death of democracy,†echoes the Washington Post’s ridiculous and meaningless banner, “democracy dies in darkness.†The author refuses to accept that in the end, the Weimar Republic was destroyed by the Great Depression that started on Wall Street. Absent that event, which almost overnight wrecked the German economy, the Nazi party and Hitler would have descended into obscurity. In some sense, American greed for the quick buck is the most direct cause of national socialism’s triumph.There are many fine analyses available on the rise of Hitler and the dissolution of the Weimar Republic. This book is not one of them.
Hunter College history professor Benjamin Carter Hett has given us an insightful history into the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler. He understands the power of myth wherein a large portion of the German population and most notably President Paul von Hindenburg believed there was unity in August 1914 at the outbreak of World War One and deceit in November 1918 when Germany surrendered. It was the power of this myth that underlay the success of the German Right.From the outset the social democratic Weimar government was never viewed as legitimate by the German Right. Thus there was a permanent built-in opposition to the government. That was compounded by the communists in the late 1920s, following Stalin’s orders, called the social democrats “social fascists.†As a result by 1931 there was an anti-democratic majority consisting of communists and Nazis working almost in tandem to destroy democracy. Although Hett covers the communist May Day demonstration of 1929 that was put down by the Social Democrats he spends far too little time on the role the communists played in bringing down Weimar.Although the Nazis were marginalized in the 1920s, the weakness in the farm economy, the continued burden of reparations and the onset of the global depression enabled the Nazis under Hitler’s leadership to unite the right. According to Hett German politics was based upon three “confessionalsâ€: the Protestants, the Catholics and the socialist/communist factions. With the Left divided, Hitler utilizing the myths of August and October dominated the Protestants and picked off enough Catholics to become the leading rightwing party. As a result by 1933 the Nazis, by default, had to be part of any coalition government and with their successful bullying tactics they seized power. Of course they were aided by the deflation policies of Heinrich Bruning’s Center Party coalition government. In part the deflationary policies were designed to make things worse to relieve Germany of its reparations liabilities.Hett gets many things right especially his view that the untimely death of foreign minister Gustav Stresemann in 1929 eliminated a democratic voice in Germany’s center-right. In my opinion Stresemann was the only politician who could have stopped Hitler. However Hett gets a few things wrong. First he over-emphasizes the opposition to globalization. He neglects to mention that globalization was at its apogee in 1914 and Germany was benefiting from it. He conflates globalization with reparations and the gold standard. Initially the real problem was with reparations which Hett notes were relatively mild relative to history, but that is a low bar, the burden on Germany was severe. He also mysteriously leaves out the 1922 assassination of finance minister Walter Rathenau by rightwing extremists. Rathenau had the confidence of both the British and French finance ministries and had he lived the reparations issue might have been ameliorated. Hett also gets wrong blaming the German farm crisis on the rise of U.S., Canadian and Australian wheat. That is not quite true. The true causes for the fall in farm prices was the return to market of Russian and southeastern European grain along with the mechanization of agriculture that reduced the need for forage crops. The farm issue is important because the core of Nazi supporters were the Protestant farmers.Hett ends his book with the Night of the Long Knives in 1934. Here Hitler eliminates Ernst Rohm’s S.A. and more importantly much of the remaining conservative opposition. If there is a lesson to be learned from Hett’s book, it is that conservatives are play with fire when they suck up to rightwing demagogues. Hett has written an important book. Read it.
This is a very well researched book about a subject that chillingly shows the parallels between today's political climate and the 1920s in Germany. Fed up with scientific thinking? All for polarization and intolerance? Want to strangle, subdue and control the press? Think only your point of view is correct? Abhor globalization? Want to build walls and shut out foreigners? Shoot people with different opinions and life-styles? Welcome: you would fit right into 1920s Germany!The author never spells it out, but shows very clearly how the development into totalitarianism can let an entire nation slide right into disaster. It couldn't happen here? It has already begun! A pity that the author may be preaching to the converted; those who are acting like the politicians of the past will never read this, and if do so, then as a blueprint.
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