Review

The Gravediggers is an account of the last two months of Germany's Weimar Republic

By Mark Thomas
September 19 2020 - 12:00am
Adolf Hitler and German president Paul von Hindenberg. Picture: Getty Images
Adolf Hitler and German president Paul von Hindenberg. Picture: Getty Images
  • The Gravediggers, by Rudiger Barth and Hauke Frederichs. Profile. $39.99.

The Gravediggers is an oddly mesmeric book. Its impact is cumulative and circuitous - but compelling. Its chronology of one winter 87 years ago in a country half a world away is discursive, fragmented - but dramatic. Its lessons are detailed and thorough - but might be summed up in one sentence from Ecclesiastes, "time and chance are the masters of everything".

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