Episode
Weimar’s descent into darkness
- Podcast
- The EI Podcast
- Published
- May 7, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 3793
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- https://audioboom.com/posts/8900480
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Summary
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