Hendrik Strauss’s Reviews > Der lange Weg nach Westen: Bd.1: Deutsche Geschichte vom Ende des Alten Reiches bis zum Untergang der Weimarer Republik > Status Update
Hendrik Strauss
is 50% done
Engaging political history, but it is not something else than that. No social history, no economic history, no cultural history, no history of the development of mentalities apart from whatever influences elections directly - just the occasional foray into the history of antisemitism in Germany.
Expected something different, but as a political primer, this is great.
— Sep 08, 2025 09:46AM
Expected something different, but as a political primer, this is great.
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Hendrik Strauss
is 80% done
Winkler will spend a hundred pages on two years and then time skip over 2 others without so much as a sentence. Such a weird history. Lots of merits but also much that is just underlining how silly his idea of a rigorous political history that tries everything to avoid narrating social history really is.
— Oct 03, 2025 09:28AM
Hendrik Strauss
is 70% done
A breath of fresh air to read Winkler writing about Weimar. Clearly his area of expertise. He finally begins to give a coherent narrative again, rather than a hard to follow rather sparsely selected chronicle with teleological over- and undertones as he did when writing about the political developments of the kaiserreich. It saves the book as a whole though it does not make the middle part any less mediocre.
— Sep 27, 2025 05:31PM
