Nadine Rossol and Benjamin Ziemann have put together an excellent handbook that takes a broad look at the first German democracy between 1918 and 1933. This is more effective than simple narratives or all 1923 books combined.
Rarely has the Weimar Republic been as present in Germany – and sometimes beyond – as it has been in recent years. The years between 1918 and 1933 have come closer to us again. The flood of publications in 1923 is only the most recent evidence of this. However, unlike in the early Federal Republic, the self-confident and reassuring “Bonn is not Weimar” of the years of the economic miracle does not dominate memory and visualization, but the admonishingly invoked possibility of “Weimar conditions”. Above all, the rise of right-wing populism with its smooth transitions to right-wing radicalism contributes to this, but also the experience of multiple crises, from which populism and anti-democracy feed in turn.