Open AccessRAINER WOHLFEIL/HANS DOLLINGER: Die deutsche Reichswehr, Bilder, Dokumente, Texte Zur Geschichte des Hunderttausend -Mannl Heeres 1919-1933.
Author(s) -
Jan Ploeger
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
scientia militaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2309-9682
pISSN - 2224-0020
DOI - 10.5787/4-1-931
Subject(s) - weimar republic , dictatorship , german , period (music) , democracy , history , art history , political science , humanities , art , economic history , law , politics , archaeology , aesthetics
This authoritative, conveniently arranged and particularly detailed military historical publication, stems in the first place from the question which continues to attract the attention of German historians, namely how it could possibly happen that during the period of the Weimar Republic, the democratic parliamentary system could evolve into that of an absolute dictatorship under Adolf Hitler