Fateful Hours Quotes

“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

“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