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

Emma Holland stood at the gate when Weimar head coach Roger Maupin left the field after the Ladycats won the state softball championship in 2013.

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 ...

Robert Kaplan is one of our nation’s best geopolitical thinkers. He has the remarkable ability to explain contemporary world events by combining classical geopolitical analysis with an ...

Leaving the theater, my strange mind couldn’t help but make a connection between the film’s early 19th-century Germany and early 20th-century Weimar Republic.

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 ...

Yet it undercut the nascent Weimar Republic and made it difficult for the new government, now labeled traitorous by many Germans, to establish its legitimacy.

Greg Jenner is joined in 20th-century Germany by Dr Bodie Ashton and comedian Jordan Gray to learn all about LGBTQ life during the Weimar Republic. Show more Greg Jenner is joined in 20th-century ...

A systematic history and objective appraisal of 14 crucial years in German history, of which the Leitmotiv is the rôle of the Republic as a spawning ground for Nazism.

After my father fled Nazi Germany in 1933, he witnessed a toxic new nationalism rising among Jews in Palestine—and was silenced for trying to warn of its dangers.