Recommended Graduate Reading: The Weimar Period

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General

• Bessel, Richard. Germany after the First World War. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Halperin, S. William. Germany Tried Democracy. New York: Norton, 1946.
• Eyck, Erich. Geschichte der Weimarer Republik. 2 vols. Erlenbach-Zurich: E. Rentsch Verlag, 1954-1956. (English: A History of the Weimar Republic. 2 vols. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1962-63.)
• Kolb, Eberhard. Die Weimarer Republik. 2nd rev. ed. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1988 (English: The Weimar Republic. London and Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988).
• Mommsen, Hans. Die verspielte Freiheit: Der Weg der Republik von Weimar in den Untergang, 1918 bis 1933. Berlin: Propyläen, 1990. (English: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy. Translated by Elborg Förster and Larry Eugene Jones. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.). Read H-German Review.
• Peukert, Detlev. Die Weimarer Republik: Krisenjahre der klassischen Moderne. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1987 (English: The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity. New York: Hill and Wang, 1992).
• Winkler, Heinrich August. Weimar, 1918-1933: Die Geschichte der ersten deutschen Demokratie. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1993.

Political

• Childers, Thomas. The Nazi Voter: The Social Foundations of Fascism, 1919-1933. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.
• Jones, Larry Eugene. German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
• Turner, Henry Ashby. German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Economic

• Feldman, Gerald. The Great Disorder: Politics, Economics and Society in the Great Inflation, 1914-1924. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Hertz-Eichenrode, Dieter. Wirtschaftskrise und Arbeitsbeschaffen: Konjunkturpolitik 1925-1926 und die Grundlagen der Krisenpolitik Brünings. Frankfurt: Campus, 1982.
• Hughes, Michael L. Paying for the German Inflation. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
• James, Harold. The German Slump: Politics and Economics, 1924-1936. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
• Krohn, Claus-Dieter. Stabilisierung und ökonomische Interessen: Die Finanzpolitik des Deutschen Reiches 1923-1927. Düsseldorf: Bertelsmann Universitätsverlag, 1974.
• McNeil, William C. American Money and the Weimar Republic. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
• Weisbrod, Bernd. Schwerindustrie in der Weimarer Republik: Interessenpolitik zwischen Stabilisierung und Krise. Wuppertal: P. Hammer, 1978.

Intellectual and Cultural

• Barnouw, Dagmar. Weimar Intellectuals and the Threat of Modernity. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1988.
• Jelavich, Peter. Berlin Cabaret. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1992.
• Gay, Peter. Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider. New York: Harper, 1968.
• Hermand, Jost, and Trommler, Frank. Die Kultur der Weimarer Republik Munich: Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, 1978.
• Ott, Hugo. Martin Heidegger: Unterwegs zu seiner Biographie. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1988. (English: Martin Heidegger: An Intellectual and Political Portrait. New York: Basic Books, 1992.)
• Petro, Patrice. Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989.
• Sackett, Robert Eben. Popular Entertainment, Class, and Politics in Munich, 1900-1923. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1982.
• Saunders, Thomas. Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1994.
• Schrader, Barbel and Schebra, Jürgen. Die goldenen zwanziger Jahre: Kunst und Kultur der Weimarer Republik. Vienna: Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., 1987. (English: The "Golden Twenties": Art and Literature in the Weimar Republic. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1988.)

Social

• Baranowski, Shelley. The Sanctity of Rural Life: Nobility, Protestantism, and Nazism in Weimar Prussia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
• Robert G. Moeller. German Peasants and Agrarian Politics, 1914-1924. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

Women and the Family

• Grossmann, Atina. Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
• Tatar, Maria. Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995. Read H-German Review.
• Usborne, Cornelie. The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany: Women's Reproductive Rights and Duties. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1992.

Primary Sources

• Akten der Reichskanzlei. Weimarer Republik. Edited by Karl-Dietrich Erdmann and Hans Booms.

 

 

1. Hagen Schulze, ed. Das Kabinett Scheidemann. Boppard, 1971.
2. Anton Golecki, ed. Das Kabinett Bauer. Boppard, 1980.
3. Martin Vogt, ed. Das Kabinett Müller I. Boppard, 1971.
4. Peter Wulf, ed. Das Kabinett Fehrenbach. Boppard, 1972.
5. Ingrid Schulze-Bidlingmaier, ed. Die Kabinette Wirth I und II. Boppard, 1973.
6. Karl-Heinz Harbech, ed. Das Kabinett Cuno. Boppard, 1978.
7. Karl-Dietrich Erdmann and Martin Vogt, eds. Die Kabinette Stresemann I und II. Boppard, 1978.
8. Günther Abramowski, ed. Die Kabinette Marx I und II. Boppard, 1973.
9. Karl-Heinz Minuth, ed. Die Kabinette Luther I und II. Boppard, 1977.
10. Günther Abramowski, ed. Die Kabinette Marx III und IV. Boppard, 1987.
11. Martin Vogt, ed. Das Kabinett Müller II. Boppard, 1970
12. Tilman Koops, ed. Die Kabinette Brüning I und II. Boppard, 1985, 1989.
13. Karl-Heinz Minuth, ed. Das Kabinett von Papen. Boppard, 1989.
14. Anton Golecki, ed. Das Kabinett von Schleicher. Boppard, 1986
• Akten zur deutschen auswärtigen Politik 1918-1945. Series A: 1918-1925, 14 volumes (incomplete); Series B: 1925-1933, 22 volumes. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, 1950-.
• Kaes, Anton, Martin Jay, and Edward Dimendberg, compilers. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1994. Read H-German Review.
• Long, Rose Carol Washton , ed. German Expressionism: Documents from the End of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Rise of National Socialism. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1995.
• Stresemann, Gustav. Diaries, Letters, and Papers. 3 vols. Translated by Eric Sutton. London: Macmillan, 1935.

Reference

• Benz, Wolfgang and Graml, Hermann, eds. Biographisches Lexikon zur Weimarer Republik. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1988.

Essay Collections and Historiographical Debates

• Bracher, Karl Dietrich, Manfred Funke, and Hans-Adolf Jacobsen, eds. Die Weimarer Republik, 1918-1933: Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 1987.
• Bridenthal, Renate, Atina Grossmann and Marion Kaplan, eds. When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany. New York : Monthly Review Press, 1984.
• Hunt, Richard, ed. The Creation of the Weimar Republic: Stillborn Democracy? New York: D.C. Heath, 1969.
• Kershaw, Ian, ed. Weimar: Why Did Democracy Fail? New York: St. Martin's, 1990.
• Mommsen, Hans, Dietmar Petzina, Bernd Weisbrod, and Dirk Stegmann, eds. Industrielles System und politische Entwicklung in der Weimarer Republik. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1974.

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