From Weimar to Hitler: Germany, 1918-33The extraordinary amount of new research relating to the Weimar Republic in the last two decades has created the need for a new survey of that period. Feuchtwanger responds admirably to that need.' C. R. Lovin, Choice E. J. Feuchtwanger is such a good historian Despite its prestigious critics and its inborn failings, Feuchtwanger writes, Weimar government was better than its reputation, establishing precedents that would benefit a German democracy yet