Weimar Germany Quotes

“Probably no other country in the 1920s—certainly not the United States, with its stark repression of the Left, vicious antiunion policies, and legally enshrined racism—had so wide a range of free speech, such a vital public sphere, as Germany.”
― Eric D. Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy

“. And it especially cannot endure when powerful groups in that society seek at every turn to undermine and destroy its very being. The threats to democracy are not always from enemies abroad. They can come from those within who espouse the language of democracy and use the liberties afforded them by democratic institutions to undermine the substance of democracy. Weimar cautions us to be wary of those people as well. What comes next can be very bad, even worse than imaginable.”
― Eric D. Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy

“Weimar Germany conjures up fears of what can happen when there is simply no societal consensus on how to move forward and every minor difference becomes a cause of existential political battles,”
― Eric D. Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy

“Men stayed in bed for hours on end, or hung around in stairwells and courtyards. “Nothing is urgent anymore; they have forgotten how to hurry.”
― Eric D. Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy