Princes, Counts and Racists
David Blackbourn: Weimar, 19 May 2016
Weimar: From Enlightenment to the Present
by Michael Kater.
Yale, 463 pp., £25, August 2014,978 0 300 17056 6 Show More
by Michael Kater.
Yale, 463 pp., £25, August 2014,
“... and the juxtaposition of Goethe with Hitler – these are the two narrative axes along which Michael Kater tells the story of Weimar. It was the capital of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, a small duchy in the fragmented landscape of the Holy Roman Empire. Cranach lived there briefly, and Bach served even more briefly as court musician, but Weimar was ... ”