Book · 2018 · History
The Death of Democracy
Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
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The Death of Democracy is a wonderful book that will tell you much better than I did everything that happened.
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- Explains historical details2
- Describes how the Weimar government fell2
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Which was based on a really good book that people should still read called The Death of Democracy.
It is a deeply important book that came out this year for good reason.
Here's how another wonderful book called The Death of Democracy describes it.
The Death of Democracy explains.
As the Death of Democracy explains, Herman Mueller's government in 1928 to30 had a stable majority.
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The Death of Democracy is a historical work by Benjamin Carter Hett that examines the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Adolf Hitler to power in Germany. On several episodes of Behind the Bastards, host Robert Evans repeatedly recommended the book as a vital resource for understanding historical fascism. Evans mentioned the title as a really good book that people should still read, explaining that it formed the foundation of earlier episodes focusing on the non-Nazi actors who inadvertently helped Hitler rise to power. He described it as a deeply important scholarly work that provided far greater detail on how democratic institutions failed in Weimar Germany than a podcast episode could cover. The book also surfaced in other contexts across the network; James Stout speculated on an episode of It Could Happen Here that a book reportedly read by senior U.S. military officers in a book club might have been Hett's work, while a guest named Propaganda mentioned reading the publication after taking Evans's previous book recommendations. Evans frequently returned to Hett's research alongside other historical texts to illustrate how normal citizens and political elites enabled authoritarian movements, cementing The Death of Democracy as a cornerstone reading recommendation for listeners interested in the mechanics of democratic collapse.
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Robert Evans Everybody should read True Believer because it gets into all this and it's a real short book and the death… 9
“which was based on a really good book that people should still read called The Death of Democracy.”
“We will save the explicitly political stuff in the end of part two, but this book, Hitler's American Friends, is the second book that I talked about heavily on this podcast this year, the first being The Death of Democracy, both of which are written by scholars and historians who focus on the history of the Third Reich and the”
“Everybody should read True Believer because it gets into all this and it's a real short book and the death of democracy.”
“Here's how another wonderful book called The Death of Democracy describes it. In part, this war was over newer forms of art and literature, socially critical theater, novels that dealt frankly with sex, expressionist painting.”
“Here's how the death of democracy describes it. The climax comes in an exchange over a pamphlet written by the Nazi party's propaganda director, Joseph Gerbles. The pamphlet is a quick guide to Nazi ideology for new party recruits.”
“The death of democracy explains, "The industrialists called for cuts in public spending and wages and a roll back of government regulation as business leaders well knew this was a program that could be achieved only through the exclusion of the political left, especially the social democrats."”
“So on the day Brennan resigned, Joseph Gerbles wrote in his diary with that the system has fallen. So I I I do want to say if you want more detail on this whole thing, The Death of Democracy is a wonderful book that will will tell you much better than I did everything that happened.”
“As the death of democracy explains, Herman Mueller's government in 1928 to30 had a stable majority. Hinrich Bruning had won a confidence vote in the Reichtag just days before Hindenburg sacked him. There was no need to call an election in 1932.”
“I think this information is important and also give a read to the death of democracy. It is a deeply important book uh that came out this year for good reason. So it it goes into even more detail about why the VHimar government led to the Nazis.”
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“there are some unconfirmed reports that Miley and a number of other like US military highranking officers basically had like a book club and one of the books they went through in 2020 was a book about the Nazis rise to power in Germany. I I kind of suspect it might have been Death of a Democracy because that was”
“So, I read Death of Democracy. Yes. So, is this the trial where the judge was essentially like, I don't give a [ __ ] I like the guy? Uh, this is one of those.”
“And I'd say I'd even tell everybody like I've taken your book advice before, you know, read a few things you didn't put out there and has sent those for like I read the Death of Democracy. Oh, that's a good one. God, that was that was a book, boy.”
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“Every source for this podcast, including the three books I used, the rise and fall of the Third Reich, uh, 1924, the year that made Hitler and the Death of Democracy. All of those sources and all the articles that I used for this will all be on the website.”