Irresponsables : ¿Quién llevó a Hitler al poder?

Far from being an inevitable outcome, Hitler's rise to power was the result of the deliberate actions of political, economic, and military elites who, blinded by their own interests, believed they could manipulate Nazism and bend it to their will. There was no historical inevitability or unstoppable process: it was specific decisions, made by specific individuals, that paved the way to disaster. Von Papen, Hindenburg, Hugenberg, and the industrialists Krupp and Thyssen gambled on a dangerous alliance that ultimately consumed them: the flirtation of the conservative right with the extreme right, driven by fear of change and the defense of their privileges, ended up backfiring and opening the gates of hell. Through previously unpublished documents and meticulous analysis, Chapoutot reconstructs the intrigues, secret pacts, and fatal errors that transformed a vibrant democracy into the brink of totalitarianism. But this is not just a history lesson: it is also an urgent warning about our present. Because the mechanisms that eroded Weimar are still lurking.