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Walther Rathenau: Weimars Fallen Statesman
Author: Shulamit Volkov
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This deeply informed biography of Walther Rathenau (18671922) tells of a man whoboth thoroughly German and unabashedly Jewishrose to leadership in the German War-Ministry Department during the First World War, and later to the exalted position of foreign minister in the early days of the Weimar Republic. His achievement was unprecedentedno Jew in Germany had ever attained such high political rank. But Rathenaus success was marked by tragedy within months he was assassinated by right-wing extremists seeking to destroy the newly formed Republic. Drawing on Rathenaus papers and on a depth of knowledge of both modern German and German-Jewish history, Shulamit Volkov creates a finely drawn portrait of this complex man who struggled with his Jewish identityyet treasured his otherness. Volkov also places Rathenau in the dual context of Imperial and Weimar Germany and of Berlins financial and intellectual elite. Above all, she illuminates the complex social and psychological milieu of German Jewry in the period before Hitlers rise to power. **
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This deeply informed biography of Walther Rathenau (18671922) tells of a man whoboth thoroughly German and unabashedly Jewishrose to leadership in the German War-Ministry Department during the First World War, and later to the exalted position of foreign minister in the early days of the Weimar Republic. His achievement was unprecedentedno Jew in Germany had ever attained such high political rank. But Rathenaus success was marked by tragedy within months he was assassinated by right-wing extremists seeking to destroy the newly formed Republic. Drawing on Rathenaus papers and on a depth of knowledge of both modern German and German-Jewish history, Shulamit Volkov creates a finely drawn portrait of this complex man who struggled with his Jewish identityyet treasured his otherness. Volkov also places Rathenau in the dual context of Imperial and Weimar Germany and of Berlins financial and intellectual elite. Above all, she illuminates the complex social and psychological milieu of German Jewry in the period before Hitlers rise to power. **
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