In the final, tumultuous years of the Weimar Republic, a succession of arch-conservative chancellors ruled by emergency ...

It was the birthplace of the liberal tradition, but also the incubator for Nazism – what can this historic city tell us about democracy?

In the waning days of 1918, Germany felt humiliated by its military defeat in World War I and exhausted after a political revolution turned it into a parliamentary democracy. But despite the upheaval, ...

Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany” and Frank McDonough’s “The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933” examine the era through different lenses. But both emphasize Germany’s ...

The focal point of the German enlightenment, Weimar had been home to Goethe, Schiller, Liszt and Nietzsche, and was the birthplace of the innovative Bauhaus art movement. It was in Weimar that Germany ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Decisions made by German chancellor Friedrich Merz when he came to power in May indicate that a somewhat dormant regional ...

It was a period of inflation and confrontation, of failed coups and armed uprisings, of assassinations and reparations, of repression and the Great Depression, of reaction and reform. There was an ...

Germany between the two world wars was a time of stunning creativity. Although it saw the rise of Nazism, the Weimar Era also included the flourishing of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) and Dada ...

In Weimar Berlin, the stars seemed to align for German Jewish photographer Marianne Breslauer. Born into a family of art lovers, Breslauer was encouraged to pursue photography. She had been a pupil at ...