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

The Weimar Republic did not go down well in history, because that first attempt at making Germany a democracy did not end well, to say the least. The government was weak, the parliament was ...

If it’s an election year it must be time to revisit the tragic fate of the short-lived Weimar Republic. Critics of the Republican presidential convention's allegedly "dark" tone see even more ...

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.

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Weimar festival opens with Hindemith, Weill, workers choruses in front of Disney Hall and a Trump protest banner unfurled inside.

The Weimar Republic was a hotbed of cultural experimentation. A new history argues that its demise was not inevitable.

It was spring of 1920, and troops were marching on Berlin. Conservative officers, who had helped the Weimar Republic defeat communist insurgents, were now turning on the politicians who led the ...

As the First World War ended and Germany had been defeated, paramilitary groups emerged. The Friekorps formed from German soldiers returning home from the war. Their beliefs were nationalist, anti ...

Despite high hopes, the new republic was troubled throughout its short life, riven by radicalism on both the left and the right, catastrophically failing in the end, and giving way in 1933 to ...

Nazi agitation, especially in the latter years of the Weimar Republic, had been subversive and the police had been investigating both the Nazis and the Communists with vigor.

A Copenhagen exhibition offers a rich view into the creative production and daily life in the Weimar Republic, with its glamour and its grotesquerie.