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In the new Oxford Handbook of Modern German History the Weimar Republic is not treated as a discrete era, but is incorporated into longer periods from the Kaiserreich to the Third Reich. This certainly helps to highlight continuities, but is this a step back to treating Weimar merely as a 'transition period' (Übergangszeit)?The chapters in question are:- J. Adam Tooze: The German National Economy in an Era of Crisis and War, 1917-1945- Thomas Mergel: Democracy and Dictatorship- Rebekka Habermas: Piety, Power and Powerlessness: Religion and Religious Groups in Germany, 1870-1945- Steve Dowden and Meike G. Werner: The Place of German Modernism- Pieter M. Judson: Nationalism in the Era of the Nation State, 1870-1945Thomas Kuhne: Todesraum: War, Peace, and the Experience of Mass Death, 1914-1945- William H. Hagen: The Three Horsemen of the Holocaust: Antisemitism, East European Empire, Aryan Folk Community- Sebastian Conrad and Philipp Ther: The Uprooted: Expulsion, Exile, Flight, Forced Labor, Expulsion, 1880-1948