# Weimar’s descent into darkness

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Podcast: [The EI Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386)
Published: 2026-05-07T09:37:45+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8900480
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## Resource

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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