« The irresponsible » by Johann Chapoutot, if Weimar is told to me – Liberation

The interwar period is in tune with the times. The arrival of the extreme right to the government in certain European countries encourages to revisit certain periods if we think that history returns the dishes. How did the Weimar Republic born in 1919 have made the Nazism bed? Because of Irresponsible of the title of Johann Chapoutot's book, in other words « A small casual, selfish and limited oligarchy that has made the choice, the calculation and the bet of the assassination of a democracy » And who, to crush the left, went to the Nazis. The last essay of the historian, led by beating drum, seduces a readership undoubtedly curious about the past to understand the contemporary. The book of the professor of contemporary history at the Sorbonne indeed walks towards the 15,000 copies sold, which brought its Gallimard publisher to launch three reprints since its release on February 6, for a total draw of 30,000 copies. So a desire for Weimar, less for this brief German Republic itself than because it would have brought Hitler to power. However, this one, the author tells us, precedes this.

The textbooks were still talking about Weimar in the 90s. In 3rd class in Martigues, Johann Chapoutot had been « Strongly impressed » By this story of a collapsed Republic, still very present and detailed in teaching and in its documents. More now. « Students are simply no longer invited