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EPISODE · May 7, 2026 · 1H 3M

Weimar’s descent into darkness

from The EI Podcast · host Engelsberg Ideas

How did Weimar, the town of Goethe and Schiller, become the crucible of Germany's moral collapse? Katja Hoyer, author of Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, speaks to EI's Alastair Benn about the town's role in the rise of the Third Reich. Image: Adolf Hitler at the ‘Haus Elephant’ in Weimar, 1936. Credit: Alamy

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