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Jan 8, 2025 | 
theatlantic.com | Timothy W. Ryback
Listen1.0x0:0032:43Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Ninety-two years ago this month, on Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy, Hitler set about destroying a constitutional republic through constitutional means.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Timothy W. Ryback
Scott Jennings Torches Kamala Over Election Cert: ‘She Put Out A Video Trying To Canonize Herself’"Before we canonize Saint Kamala here on the high holy day of January 6th ..." CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings let all the air out of the …
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Michael Kimmage |Lawrence Freedman |Jim Sciutto |Timothy W. Ryback
Kimmage, a historian and former State Department staffer, describes the twisting road from the end of the Cold War, when many observers hoped for a more peaceful and democratic world, to the current dire state of relations between Russia and the West.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Timothy W. Ryback
Timothy W. Ryback assiduously traces the socio-political drifts, cross-currents and evolving, complex circumstances in the nascent Weimar Republic after the First World War that contributed to Hitler’s rise to power Argha Kr Banerjee Published 30.08.24, 09:19 AM TAKEOVER: HITLER’SFINAL RISE TO POWER By Timothy W. Ryback Headline, Rs 999 Timothy W.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | John Sullivan |Lawrence Freedman |Jim Sciutto |Timothy W. Ryback
In This Review In This Review Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir From the Front Lines of Russia’s War Against the WestSullivan served as U.S. ambassador to Russia from 2020 to 2022, working under both the Trump and Biden administrations and handling the fallout of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. His memoir is candid, confirming the dysfunctions of Donald Trump’s presidency and, to a lesser extent, Joe Biden’s.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Timothy W. Ryback |Lawrence Freedman |Jim Sciutto |John Sullivan
In This Review In This Review Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to PowerThe German humiliation in the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I, the impact of the Great Depression, and the right-wing prejudices of the German establishment all contributed to Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. So did the choices of other key players.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
johnbatchelor.substack.com | Timothy W. Ryback |John Batchelor
It is August 13th, 1932, Berlin. I welcome Timothy Ryback. He's the author of a new book, Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power. Tim is the co-founder and director at the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation at The Hague. He speaks to me from Berlin itself, and we're speaking of moments between August 13th, 1932 and January 30th, 1933, in which everything changes for Germany, for Europe, and I will say for the 20th century.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | Timothy W. Ryback
The Weimar Republic (so called as the parliament which drafted its constitution in 1919 sat in Weimar owing to unrest in Berlin) lasted for fourteen years and four months, two years longer than the Third Reich that succeeded it. Its history is beset with ironies. Its first president, Friedrich Ebert, a social democrat (and a former innkeeper), turned out to be the embodiment of petit-bourgeois conservatism.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
time.com | Timothy W. Ryback
IdeasBy Timothy RybackApril 26, 2024 7:00 AM EDTRyback is the author of Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to PowerAdolf Hitler never won a majority in a free and open national election. He never received more than 37% of the vote in a free and open national election, but he argued that 37% represented 75% of 51%, and demanded political power. It was the political calculus by which the Nazi leader disabled, then dismantled, the Weimar Republic.
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Apr 13, 2024 | 
spokesman.com | Timothy W. Ryback
When Adolf Hitler was convicted of treason on April 1, 1924, for leading an armed insurrection against Germany’s democratically elected government, he discovered something remarkable: Courtrooms can make excellent soapboxes for political grandstanding. In real time, 100 years later, we’ve been watching another political leader, former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, do the same. The echoes are uncanny and disturbing.
