| Description |
223 pages ; 19 cm |
| Series |
An Anvil original ; 89 |
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Anvil original ; 89
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| Contents |
Hitler's final speech at his trial for treason, March 27, 1924 -- Hitler denounces the Treaty of Versailles -- The German Reichswehr and the Weimar Republic -- The Dawes Plan: Statement of Principles, April 9, 1924 -- Proclamation by the Reich President Hindenburg to the German People, May 12, 1925 -- The Locarno Pact: Treaty of Mutual Guarantee, October 16, 1925 -- Stresemann defends the Locarno Pact -- The Russo-German Treaty, April 24, 1926 -- Germany's entrance into the League of Nations, September 8, 1926 -- Hindenburg dedicates the Tannenberg National Monument, September 18, 1927 -- The young plan: Dr. Schacht's memorandum, December 5, 1929 -- Rilke is disillusioned by the Weimar Republic -- The revival of chauvinism -- Alfred Rosenberg: The Myth of the Twentieth Century -- The Great Depression: the prisoners of Carlshafen -- A Goebbels' Propaganda Pamphlet, 1930 -- The Horst Wessel Song -- Clemenceau warns of Germany rearming, 1930 -- Hitler's Dusseldorf Speech to the Rhineland Industrialists, January 27, 1932 -- The Hindenburg-Hitler Interview, August 13, 1932 -- Resignation of the Schleicher Cabinet, January 28, 1933 -- Hitler named chancellor, January 30, 1933 -- Law for the Reorganization of the Reich, January 30, 1934 -- Appendix: Reich Chancellors of the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933 |
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Part I -- The Weimar Republic -- Collapse of the monarchy: Germany sues for peace -- The Revolution of 1918 -- Birth: the advent of the republic -- Framework: the Weimar Constitution -- Disillusionment and instability, 1920-1924 -- The Era of Optimism and Conciliation, 1924-1929 -- Culture in the reluctant republic -- Death agony: the twilight of German democracy, 1929-1933 -- Postscript: the tragedy of history -- Part II -- Readings -- The first German peace note, October 3, 1918 -- Ebert's Manifesto, November 9, 1918 -- Proclamation of the German Republic, November 9, 1918 -- Proclamation of the Government, November 10, 1918 -- The terms of the armistice, November 11, 1918 -- Declaration by German delegates on signing the armistice -- Alfred von Wegerer denies German war guilt -- The Dolchstoss "stab-in-the-back" theory, 1918 -- The abdication of William II, November 28, 1918 -- The Spartacist Manifesto, November 29, 1918 -- Joint announcement of the Independents and the Communists, January 5, 1919 -- The military machine revived: Berlin in mid-January, 1919 -- Gustav Landaueron the Lost Revolution, January 21, 1919 -- The Treaty of Versailles is presented to the Germans, May 7, 1919 -- The German government accepts the peace treaty, June 23, 1919 -- The Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919 -- A Pan-German newspaper calls for vengeance, June 28, 1919 -- The Weimar Constitution -- The Kapp Putsch: a self-proclaimed "Reich Chancellor" addresses the German people, March 13, 1920 -- The twenty-five points of the German Workers' Party, February 25, 1920 -- The Rapallo Pact, April 16, 1922 -- A Song of Nationalist Youth -- The murder of Rathenau, June 24, 1922: an eyewitness account -- Declaration of German default by the Reparations Commission, December 26, 1922 -- The last hours of Albert Leo Schlageter, May 26, 1923 -- Fever Dance: Berlin in the days of inflation, 1923 -- The Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch: March on the Feldherrnhalle, November 9, 1923 |
| Summary |
Concise survey-analysis with reading from documents of the period |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 218-220 |
| SUBJECT |
Germany -- History -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115195
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Germany -- History -- 1918-1933. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054589
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Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115192
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| LC no. |
66003430 |
| ISBN |
0442000898 |
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