In the organizer's words:

Weimar: home of German high culture and epicenter of Nazi barbarism. Like no other place in the country, Weimar stands for light and darkness, for the trauma of the 20th century and the failure of democracy. The renowned historian and bestselling author Katja Hoyer is brilliant at bringing history to life. In her new book, she tells the history and stories of the people of Weimar - the famous and the unknown - and shows how individual and collective decisions can maintain a democracy, but also destroy it. An extraordinary and highly topical book that illuminates in an impressive way why there is no immunity to totalitarian ideologies.

Katja Hoyer, born in 1985, went to England after studying history at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. There she commented on historical and political topics for the BBC, the Telegraph and the Spectator, among others. Today she conducts research at King's College London and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. As a columnist for the Washington Post, she regularly writes about German and European society and politics. Her first book to be published in German, "Diesseits der Mauer", was an immediate Spiegel bestseller.

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