The Weimar Republic was a time of endless crises. Its existence ceased to exist after less than 14 years with the arrival of Adolf Hitler . Few at the time mourned German democracy.

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

The Weimar Republic was a time of endless crises. Its existence ceased to exist after less than 14 years with the arrival of Adolf Hitler . Few at the time mourned German democracy.

Now with his old orchestra, Salonen has instigated a new investigation, “The Weimar Republic: Germany 1918–1933.” Along with his two major L.A. Phil programs, ...

The Death of a Republic: Germany 1933. Published May 29, 2016 at 4:00 PM EDT Updated Jun 15, 2016 at 3:15 AM EDT. ... The rampant inflation of the Weimar Republic’s currency, ...

In Weimar Germany, the prospects of civil war were greater by far, as the institutions of the young Republic were never fully accepted by the old monarchist elites, the military, the ...

A picturesque city in eastern Germany, Weimar is also a metaphor, its name forever attached to the republic that preceded the Third Reich. Popularly, “Weimar” connotes democratic failure and a ...

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.

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 ...

Germany’s first democratic constitution was adopted there, in the city of Weimar in 1919. And Thuringia is arguably where the end of the Weimar Republic began, as Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party ...

1931 Berlin, Germany "Kabaret der Komiker" (Cabaret of Comedians), or KadeKo, was the most famous of Weimar Berlin's later cabarets. KadeKo featured populist entertainment with a left-leaning ...

This fascinating period of history is being examined by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a festival titled “Weimar Republic: Germany 1918-1933,” which started Thursday and runs through Feb. 29.