After the German Empire lost the First World War and the Kaiser abdicated, the newly established Weimar Republic lingered in an incredibly unstable and chaotic situation. Both the far left and far ...

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A fragile democracy, the Weimar Republic, briefly took hold in Germany before the Nazis seized power. Now, Weimar’s collapse is seen as a warning. The German National Theater in Weimar, Germany, where ...

In modern discourse, the term “Weimar Republic” conjures a lurid host of associations, few of them related to the stately old German ducal city of Weimar. One thinks, instead, of the mythical Berlin ...

Nevertheless, in the preface to German historian Volker Ullrich’s new history, Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic, we hear that because “Democracies are fragile” and “can flip into ...

A historic waterfront villa in one of Hamburg’s most prestigious neighborhoods has just come on the market for €22 million (US$25.6 million). The property, in Harvestehude, was last sold in 2020 and ...

A story is told about a day when motion picture director Otto Preminger, who sought a safe haven from the Nazis and achieved fame and fortune in the American movie industry, overheard a conversation ...

Conservative journalist Jack Posobiec spoke at a White House roundtable on Wednesday afternoon hosted by President Donald Trump to discuss the domestic threat posed by Antifa. JACK POSOBIEC, HUMAN ...

University of Minnesota history professor Weitz takes readers on a walk through Weimar Republic–era Berlin in the footsteps of a 1920s flâneur, an urban ambler. Wandering among cafes and department ...

Germany after World War I was broke, humiliated—and brimming with bold ideas. The Weimar Republic fought to rebuild a nation while shadows gathered at its edge Nepal PM resigns, country in crisis ...

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