Episode 30 - The Mirage

The years of 1924-29 represented a kind of golden age for Weimar Germany, and as a consequence not as much happened compared to the five years previous, so I'm compressing it into a single episode. But as relatively nice as those years were, they were also deceptive. All the problems of the past had only been papered over, not solved. Material conditions improved enough to encourage people not to try and overturn the republic, but fell short of making them identify with it. So when the next big crisis came around, Germany would be just as divided and vulnerable as ever.    Bibliography for this episode:  Evans, Richard The Coming of the Third Reich Penguin Books, 2003 Peukert, Detlev The Weimar Republic Suhrkamp Verlag am Main, 1987 Weitz, Eric Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy Princeton University Press 2007   Questions? Comments? Email me at [email protected]