The Schmidts' tragedy at the Hohenzollern

How did Weimar, the town of Goethe and Schiller, become the crucible of Germany's moral collapse? Katja Hoyer, author of Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, speaks to EI's Alastair Benn about the town's role in the rise of the Third Reich.

Image: Adolf Hitler at the ‘Haus Elephant’ in Weimar, 1936. Credit: Alamy