Fateful Hours Quotes

“The unjust allocation of food, more than shortages per se, raised ire and left people embittered, and as of 1916 they began venting their pent-up frustration in strikes and protests.”
― Volker Ullrich, Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic

“The failure of the Weimar Republic remains a lesson of how fragile democracy is and how quickly freedom can be squandered, if democratic institutions cease to function and civil society is too weak to keep the anti-democratic wolves from the door.”
― Volker Ullrich, Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic

“Nero.’ Unfortunately, history shows that behind every zero there’s always a Nero.”
― Volker Ullrich, Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic

“people. If Hindenburg ascends the throne, it won’t be as a philosopher, just as a representative symbol, a question mark, a zero. You could say: ‘Better a zero than a Nero.”
― Volker Ullrich, Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic

“The way you look and speak, people will laugh at you,” Pabst claims to have sneered to the beer-hall demagogue.92 Underestimating Hitler was a constant feature of his disastrous political career.”
― Volker Ullrich, Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic