By contrast, the United States in 2025 has until now had a strong democratic tradition, stable institutions and a military ...

Weak morale. In spite of the popular adage, history does not repeat. But – as Mark Twain wrote – it rhymes. The current political chaos in Germany is not the result of a lost war, although ...

Weak morale. In spite of the popular adage, history does not repeat. But – as Mark Twain wrote – it rhymes. The current political chaos in Germany is not the result of a lost war, although ...

The Weimar Republic was born in the aftermath of Germany’s defeat in World War I. Germany’s emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, was forced off the throne on Nov. 9, 1918, and politicians from the SPD ...

Was Weimar Germany doomed? A vibrant new history argues it wasn’t. Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo” recaptures and endorses the era’s spirit of modern excess, and argues that it could have lasted.

Yet it undercut the nascent Weimar Republic and made it difficult for the new ... Weimar Germany remains one of modern history's most infamous examples of the collapse of a democracy and the rise ...

History | May 23, 2023. How Hyperinflation Heralded the Fall of German Democracy. In 1923, the collapse of the Weimar Republic’s economy impoverished millions and gave Adolf Hitler his first ...

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From 1921 to 1923, the Weimar Republic suffered one of the greatest economic crises in German history: hyperinflation. During the "Golden Twenties" the German mark rapidly lost nearly all of its ...

The citywide Weimar festival—which runs through early June—explores one of the most complex and consequential chapters in modern history: Germany's Weimar Republic of 1919–1933.