The author spent hundreds of hours in archives across various countries to bring this extraordinary documentation from the Weimar Republic to paper. In the 1920s, Germany was unable to meet the reparations payments for World War I. The result was rampant inflation, hunger, rapidly deteriorating living conditions for the population, and a nearly incapacitated state. What happened back then could threaten us again, as there are many parallels to today's time. Exciting and knowledgeable, Adam Fergusson takes the reader on a journey through time - from the past to the present and into the future of our social, political, and economic order.