In his latest book, the German historian Volker Ullrich describes a nation buffeted by poverty, hyperinflation and political extremism, but managing — for the moment — to thwart Hitler’s ascent.

Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler’s Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis by Volker Ullrich WW Norton £25, 448 pages Charles Emmerson is the author of ‘Crucible: The Long End of the Great War ...

Exactly a century ago, Germany was on the edge of the precipice, muddling through a year that could easily be classified as annus horribilis. Still struggling from its ignominious defeat in World ...

Germany revisits the trauma of 1923 a century later The resurgence of inflation and the dismantling of a right-wing terrorist cell that was aiming to restore the Reich has given the events of 1923 ...

In 1923, at the most fevered moment of the German hyperinflation, the exchange rate between the dollar and the Mark was one trillion Marks to one dollar, and a wheelbarrow full of money would not ...

The first time the Nazis tried to seize power. The year that broke Germany. Nuremberg, 1923. At 8:45 pm on November 8, 1923, Adolf Hitler, then 34 and the little-known leader of a tiny, violent ...

The Nazi party used radios to spread its message to new followers, especially pushing the argument that Germany had been wronged by the Treaty of Versailles. Alongside posters, school programs ...