Today we’re talking to Mark Jones, associate professor of history at UCD, about his new book 1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler’s Coup.


The book tells the story of one of the most chaotic and consequential years in German history – a time of occupation, hyperinflation, rage, despair, conspiracy and murder.


A century on, what can we learn from the struggle of the Weimar Republic?

And what, if anything, can we really learn from studying history at all?

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