Diary
Eric Hobsbawm: Memories of Weimar, 24 January 2008
“... explosive Berlin of the Weimar Republic. The place was a terrible letdown.’ The cover of Eric Weitz’s excellent and splendidly illustrated Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy brings back memories.* It shows the old Potsdamer Platz long before its transformation into a ruin at the hands of Hitler and into Disneyland architecture in the reunified ... ”