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What caused the fall of one of the most progressive governments in twentieth-century Europe, and the rise of the most terrifying? Drawing on individual stories this revelatory new account presents a portrait of Germany at a turning point, focusing on the global dimension of the Nazi phenomenon as part of a widespread reaction against a world order of triumphant, cosmopolitan liberal democracy and capitalism after the First World War. A landmark account of the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler.