Volker Ullrich is a historian and journalist whose previous books include biographies of Bismarck and Napoleon, as well as a major study of Imperial Germany, The Nervous Superpower, 1871-1918. Ullrich was for many years editor of the political books review section of Die Zeit. His two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler was a German bestseller.
«Kein Volk der Welt hat erlebt, was dem deutschen ‹1923›-Erlebnis entspricht», schrieb Sebastian Haffner im englischen Exil, und Stefan Zweig befand, dass die Geschichte noch «nie eine ähnliche Tollhauszeit in solchen riesigen Proportionen produzi...[SEE MORE]