The New Germany

Berlin, winter 1919. A Kaiser has fled, an empire has collapsed, and in the freezing streets paramilitary bands fight for Germany's future. George Young wrote this account from inside the chaos, weeks after the Armistice, while the Spartacist uprising still smoked and the Allies prepared to dictate peace at Versailles. He traces the violent birth of the Weimar Republic through its street battles, failed revolutions, and the desperate struggle between reactionaries and radicals. The old order fought back with Freikorps terror; the revolutionaries dreamed of reshaping Europe. Young captures it all with the urgency of a man who knew the next weeks would decide everything. This is not distant history written in comfort - it is journalism from the edge of national collapse. For anyone seeking to understand how Europe's deadliest century began, how democracy took root in poisoned soil, and why the Weimar Republic was doomed from its first bloody day, this is essential primary source material.