In a timely presentation, Jack Mayer will speak, Sept. 24, on “How Did Germany’s Weimar Democracy Become the Third Reich?”

Mayer’s talk is grounded in his historical novel “Before the Court of Heaven.” The book, based on real incidents, tells of how Germany, defeated, humiliated, and in chaos, after World War I was imperiled by leftist revolution and right-wing violence.

Mayer is the author of four books including “Life in a Jar,” about the rescue of young children from the Warsaw Ghetto. He has also published two volumes of poetry collection “Poems From The Wilderness” ( Proverse 2019, Winner of the Proverse Prize) and “Entanglements: Physics, Love, And Wilderness Dreams” (Proverse 2022) which reflects his interest in the physics and metaphysics of cosmology and the primacy of relationships.

The program begins at 2 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

This is a Vermont Humanities Council event hosted by Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bennington.

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