Preface

A magical beginning: the 1918-19 revolution

Marching on Berlin: the Kapp-Lüttwitz putsch

"The enemy is on the right": the murder of Walther Rathenau

Madhouse: the occupation of the Ruhr Valley and hyperinflation

The turn to the right: Ebert's death and Hindenburg's election

A dark day: the collapse of the final grand coalition

The Thuringia model: Wilhelm Frick's fascist cultural revolution

The beginning of the end: Brüning's fall

The hour of the barons: Papen's Prussian coup d'état

The finish line: the transfer of power to Hitler

Wait and see: reactions to January 30, 1933

Afterword and acknowledgments.