–book review by Jens Kruse — Benjamin Carter Hett opens his book The Death of Democracy. Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic (New York: Henry Holt, 2018) with the burning of the Reichstag during the night of Monday, February 27, 1933, “the last night of the Weimar Republic, the last night of German democracy” (3). This event, even more than Hitler’s ascension to the chancellorship on January 30, 1933, was the hinge moment in history … Continue reading The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic