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05624cam a2200841 i 4500 001 48ED5ACECF3111EE9084F518253FDB2A 003 SILO 005 20240219081507 008 170901t20182018nyuaf b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017278313 020 $a 0735234817 020 $a 9780735234819 020 $a 1250162505 020 $a 9781250162502 035 $a (OCoLC)1002530394 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d DBI $d OCLCO $d BUR $d WZW $d SO$ $d FM0 $d JNE $d TXKYL $d NYP $d CLE $d APL $d OUP $d PSC $d TXMAL $d WLU $d RB0 $d GUA $d NBO $d BUF $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d NAM $d IAD $d YUS $d B@L $d TNX $d UBC $d IBQ $d ZHM $d EUM $d SNN $d S#L $d NTG $d MG0 $d GO6 $d GZM $d OCLCQ $d GTA $d IPL $d OCLCO $d H4N $d BGU $d YU6 $d VRC $d OBE $d MTU $d OCLCQ $d OCL $d NRC $d ZNC $d DLC $d BDP $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d CGP $d JAS $d TOH $d QQ3 $d IGA $d OQX $d VP@ $d OCLCF $d MQS $d IL4J6 $d OCLCO $d OCLCL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-gx--- 050 4 $a DD240 $b .H474 2018 055 3 $a DD240 $b H48 082 04 $a 943.086 $2 23 100 1 $a Hett, Benjamin Carter, $e author. 245 14 $a The death of democracy : $b Hitler's rise to power and the downfall of the Weimar Republic / $c Benjamin Carter Hett. 246 30 $a Hitler's rise to power and the downfall of the Weimar Republic 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, New York : $b Henry Holt and Company, $c 2018. 300 $a xix, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-265) and index. 505 0 $a Cast of characters -- Important political parties in the Weimar Republic -- Introduction -- August and November -- "Don't believe him, he's telling the truth" -- Blood May and the creeper -- The hunger chancellor -- State of emergency -- The bohemian private and the gentleman jockey -- Coordination -- "We have to get rid of him." 520 $a "A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen. Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In [this book], Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time. To say that Hitler was elected is too simple. He would never have come to power if Germany's leading politicians had not responded to a spate of populist insurgencies by trying to co-opt him, a strategy that backed them into a corner from which the only way out was to bring the Nazis in. Hett lays bare the misguided confidence of conservative politicians who believed that Hitler and his followers would willingly support them, not recognizing that their efforts to use the Nazis actually played into Hitler's hands. They had willingly given him the tools to turn Germany into a vicious dictatorship. Benjamin Carter Hett is a leading scholar of twentieth-century Germany and a gifted storyteller whose portraits of these feckless politicians show how fragile democracy can be when those in power do not respect it. He offers a powerful lesson for today, when democracy once again finds itself embattled and the siren song of strongmen sounds ever louder."--Jacket. 600 10 $a Hitler, Adolf, $d 1889-1945. 600 10 $a Hindenburg, Paul von, $d 1847-1934. 651 0 $a Germany $x Politics and government $y 1918-1933. 651 0 $a Germany $x Politics and government $y 1933-1945. 651 0 $a Germany $x Social conditions $y 1918-1933. 651 0 $a Germany $x Social conditions $y 1933-1945. 651 0 $a Germany $x History $y 1933-1945. 650 0 $a Democracy $z Germany $x History. 650 0 $a Political leadership $z Germany $x History. 650 0 $a National socialism $z Germany. 651 1 $a Germany $x Politics and government $y 1918-1933 651 6 $a Allemagne $x Politique et gouvernement $y 1918-1933. 651 6 $a Allemagne $x Politique et gouvernement $y 1933-1945. 651 6 $a Allemagne $x Conditions sociales $y 1918-1933. 651 6 $a Allemagne $x Conditions sociales $y 1933-1945. 651 6 $a Allemagne $x Histoire $y 1933-1945. 650 7 $a HISTORY $z Europe $x Germany. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE $x Fascism & Totalitarianism. $x Fascism & Totalitarianism. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE $x European. $x European. $2 bisacsh 600 17 $a Hitler, Adolf, $d 1889-1945 $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00034591 600 17 $a Hindenburg, Paul von, $d 1847-1934 $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00011841 650 7 $a Political leadership. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069363 650 7 $a Democracy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00890077 650 7 $a National socialism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01033761 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 651 7 $a Germany. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210272 648 7 $a 1918-1945 $2 fast 600 17 $a Hitler, Adolf, $d 1889-1945. $2 nli 600 17 $a Hindenburg, Paul von, $d 1847-1934. $2 nli 651 7 $a Germany $x Politics and government $y 1918-1933. $2 nli 651 7 $a Germany $x Politics and government $y 1933-1945. $2 nli 651 7 $a Germany $x Social conditions $y 1918-1933. $2 nli 651 7 $a Germany $x Social conditions $y 1933-1945. $2 nli 651 7 $a Germany $x History $y 1933-1945. $2 nli 650 7 $a Democracy $z Germany $x History. $2 nli 650 7 $a Political leadership $z Germany $x History. $2 nli 650 7 $a National socialism $z Germany. $2 nli 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 $n 1 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20240219084410.0 $n 9 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=48ED5ACECF3111EE9084F518253FDB2A 994 $a C0 $b IOZInitiate Another SILO Locator Search