What We Are Reading Today: Fateful Hours by Volker Ullrich

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Updated 31 December 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: Fateful Hours by Volker Ullrich

Volker Ullrich’s “Fateful Hours” chronicles the captivating story of the Weimar Republic, charting the many failed alternatives and missed opportunities that contributed to German democracy’s collapse.

Drawing on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, and other sources, Ullrich argues that, right up until January 1933, history was open and that there was no shortage of opportunities to stop the slide into fascism.