I he year 1923 in Germany was defined by hyperinflation, a political system on the verge of collapse, and separatist movements that threatened the nation's territorial integrity. Most significantly, Adolf Hitler launched his infamous Beer Hall Putsch in Munich-a failed coup that nonetheless drew international attention and demonstrated the Nazis' ruthless determination to seize power. In Germany 1923, award-winning historian Volker Ullrich shows that people at the time found it almost miraculous that the Weimar Republic-the first German democracy-was able to survive, even as sharper-eyed observers saw that the dark currents unleashed could lead to much worse. Drawing on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, novels, and poems, Ullrich presents an indelible, definitive account of that fateful year, and suggests parallels with our own crises today.