This book details the attempts of American Ambassador Frederic Sackett to save the Weimar Republic, achieve German nationalist goals, and thwart Adolf Hitler's drive to power. 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. Although at first the American thought that misrule by incompetent and inefficient Nazis would pave the way for a communist state, in time he came to see Hitler as the real threat to democracy in Germany.
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"...a lucid and fluent narrative/analysis of the events of Sackett's embassy into the bargain....[a] spledid piece of work." The International History Review
"...a meticulously researched work that offers substantial insight into American involvement in Germany immediately prior to Hitler's accession. ...interesting and detailed....The reviewer heartily endorses this monograph." History
"This is a carefully researched and balanced account... Burke has made a substantial contribution to our understanding of U.S. policy toward Germany in the final years of the Weimar Replublic." German Studies Review
"...a first-rate study of Frederic Sackett, Herbert Hoover's ambassador to Germany. In the process, readers not only get insights into US policy concerning war debts, reparations, and disarmament, but also learn how the Western diplomatic corps--of which Sackett was an integral part--analyzed the decline of the Weimar Republic and Hitler's assumption of power. Few, if any, studies on US policy toward late Weimar Germany are so detailed. Thus, Burke has written a definitive work that fills a real gap." J.D. Doenecke, Choice
"...a meticulously researched work that offers substantial insight into American involvement in Germany immediately prior to Hitler's accession. ...interesting and detailed....The reviewer heartily endorses this monograph." History
"This is a carefully researched and balanced account... Burke has made a substantial contribution to our understanding of U.S. policy toward Germany in the final years of the Weimar Replublic." German Studies Review
"...a first-rate study of Frederic Sackett, Herbert Hoover's ambassador to Germany. In the process, readers not only get insights into US policy concerning war debts, reparations, and disarmament, but also learn how the Western diplomatic corps--of which Sackett was an integral part--analyzed the decline of the Weimar Republic and Hitler's assumption of power. Few, if any, studies on US policy toward late Weimar Germany are so detailed. Thus, Burke has written a definitive work that fills a real gap." J.D. Doenecke, Choice
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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.
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ON A PLEASANT SATURDAY afternoon in early December 1931, two American diplomats and their wives were enjoying an afternoon in the suburban Berlin home of a prominent German banker. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
battleship issue, foreign loan policy, disarmament delegation, moratorium proposal, customs union proposal, unofficial diplomats, embassy chancery, reparations issue, international economic conference, world economic conference, diet elections, named chancellor, economic diplomacy, pocket battleship, notes for memoirs, disarmament conference, war debts, reparations payments, paying reparations, corporatist system, disarmament talks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Weimar Republic, State Department, Social Democrats, President Hoover, Storm Troopers, Young Plan, New York Times, President Hindenburg, Stimson Diary, German Communist, Treaty of Versailles, Ambassador Sackett, Hoover Moratorium, Great Britain, Sackett Papers, Moffat Diary, Herbert Hoover, National Socialists, Stimson Papers, Entente Allies, Gregor Strasser, Lausanne Conference, Soviet Union, Versailles Treaty New!
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ON A PLEASANT SATURDAY afternoon in early December 1931, two American diplomats and their wives were enjoying an afternoon in the suburban Berlin home of a prominent German banker. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
battleship issue, foreign loan policy, disarmament delegation, moratorium proposal, customs union proposal, unofficial diplomats, embassy chancery, reparations issue, international economic conference, world economic conference, diet elections, named chancellor, economic diplomacy, pocket battleship, notes for memoirs, disarmament conference, war debts, reparations payments, paying reparations, corporatist system, disarmament talks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Weimar Republic, State Department, Social Democrats, President Hoover, Storm Troopers, Young Plan, New York Times, President Hindenburg, Stimson Diary, German Communist, Treaty of Versailles, Ambassador Sackett, Hoover Moratorium, Great Britain, Sackett Papers, Moffat Diary, Herbert Hoover, National Socialists, Stimson Papers, Entente Allies, Gregor Strasser, Lausanne Conference, Soviet Union, Versailles Treaty New!
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- The Weimar Republic (Questions and Analysis in History) by Stephen J. Lee on 9 pages
- Herbert Hoover (United States Presidents) by Paul Joseph on 6 pages
- German Foreign Policy by Marshall Lee on 4 pages
- Financial Crises (MSH: Colloques) by Kindleberger on page 129, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Recasting Bourgeois Europe by Charles S. Maier on page 42, page 43, and Back Matter
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- A Companion to American Foreign Relations (Blackwell Companions to American History) by Robert Schulzinger on page 181, and Back Matter
- Thank God They're on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1921-1965 by David F. Schmitz in Back Matter
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