Ambassador Frederic Sackett and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic, 1930 1933
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The behind-the-scenes story of how Ambassador Sackett used all his influence to help prevent Hitler from coming into power.This book details a striking political relationship between American Ambassador Frederic Sackett and German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning and their attempts to save the Weimar Republic, achieve German nationalist goals, and thwart Adolf Hitler's drive to power. Sackett believed that financial policy was at the heart of German problems and, unless resolved, could be the basis for Hitler's success. Very early in his tenure in Berlin, Sackett saw Hitler and the Nazis as a seri...
The behind-the-scenes story of how Ambassador Sackett used all his influence to help prevent Hitler from coming into power.
This book details a striking political relationship between American Ambassador Frederic Sackett and German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning and their attempts to save the Weimar Republic, achieve German nationalist goals, and thwart Adolf Hitler's drive to power. Sackett believed that financial policy was at the heart of German problems and, unless resolved, could be the basis for Hitler's success. Very early in his tenure in Berlin, Sackett saw Hitler and the Nazis as a serious danger to the Weimar Republic and to peace in Europe. The American thought that misrule by incompetent and inefficient Nazis would pave the way for a communist state. Although at first he saw the Nazis as harbingers of worse to come, in time he came to see Hitler as the real threat to democracy in Germany.
Table of content:
Introduction; 1. A time of opportunity; 2. American diplomacy, official and unofficial; 3. The landslide election; 4. Sackett takes the initiative; 5. Sackett and the financial crisis; 6. Perceptions of Nazism and Communism, with an afterthought on Fascism; 7. One end, two paths: Hitler and Brüning in conflict; 8. Efforts to sustain representative government in Germany; 9. Sackett loses heart with Brüning's fall; 10. The decline of Hitler and the Nazis; 11. Through a glass darkly; Conclusion; Bibliography.
This book details a striking political relationship between American Ambassador Frederic Sackett and German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning and their attempts to save the Weimar Republic, achieve German nationalist goals, and thwart Adolf Hitler's drive to power. Sackett believed that financial policy was at the heart of German problems and, unless resolved, could be the basis for Hitler's success. Very early in his tenure in Berlin, Sackett saw Hitler and the Nazis as a serious danger to the Weimar Republic and to peace in Europe. The American thought that misrule by incompetent and inefficient Nazis would pave the way for a communist state. Although at first he saw the Nazis as harbingers of worse to come, in time he came to see Hitler as the real threat to democracy in Germany.
Table of content:
Introduction; 1. A time of opportunity; 2. American diplomacy, official and unofficial; 3. The landslide election; 4. Sackett takes the initiative; 5. Sackett and the financial crisis; 6. Perceptions of Nazism and Communism, with an afterthought on Fascism; 7. One end, two paths: Hitler and Brüning in conflict; 8. Efforts to sustain representative government in Germany; 9. Sackett loses heart with Brüning's fall; 10. The decline of Hitler and the Nazis; 11. Through a glass darkly; Conclusion; Bibliography.