In a new book about everyday existence in wartime Berlin, students, musicians, Nazi maidens, and members of the resistance ...

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 ...

How did a democratic system collapse from within? This analysis looks at postwar resentment, economic crises, political fragmentation, and key decisions by Germany’s elites that together enabled Adolf ...

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 ...

SS Bremen, the ocean liner launched in 1928, was one of the most beautiful passenger ships of the golden age of liners. She was a product of the Weimar Republic, the short-lived democratic society ...

WEIMAR, Thuringia, Germany — Walking through Weimar, Germany, the legacy of the Holocaust seems inescapable. Stolpersteine — German for “stumbling blocks” — are placed outside the homes of people ...

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 ...

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The years between the end of World War I and the rise of Hitler were tough times for the German people as they were recovering from a monstrous defeat. Still, aspects of German life were humming. 1919 ...

Spanish has become the most popular foreign language for GCSE students, overtaking French for the first time. Its rise is partly attributed to Spain's popularity as a holiday destination and the ...