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100 1  Hett, Benjamin Carter,|eauthor. 
245 14 The death of democracy :|bHitler's rise to power and the 
       downfall of the Weimar Republic /|cBenjamin Carter Hett 
246 30 Hitler's rise to power and the downfall of the Weimar 
       Republic 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York  :|bHenry Holt and Company,|c2018. 
264  4 |c©2018 
300    xix, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-265) and 
       index. 
520    "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."--Dust jacket. 
600 10 Hitler, Adolf,|d1889-1945. 
600 10 Hindenburg, Paul von,|d1847-1934. 
650  0 Democracy|zGermany|xHistory. 
650  0 Political leadership|zGermany|xHistory. 
650  0 National socialism|zGermany. 
651  0 Germany|xPolitics and government|y1918-1933. 
651  0 Germany|xPolitics and government|y1933-1945. 
651  0 Germany|xSocial conditions|y1918-1933. 
651  0 Germany|xSocial conditions|y1933-1945.