A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them. At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud ...

Director Charles Newell’s production is a thrillingly staged piece of theater, uncannily appropriate to the moment.

The new show at Court Theatre, a world premiere simply titled “Berlin,” ranges further back into the heart of the Weimar Republic, and centers not just the denizens of a nightclub but a whole ...

Germany’s military defeat in the First World War had cast a huge shadow over the democratic Weimar Republic. A myth developed that Germany had not been defeated on the battlefield but “stabbed ...

Kaplan has drawn an interesting parallel of the present situation with the erstwhile Weimar Republic, the semi-presidential republic during the interwar period (1918-1933). Much like Weimar ...

"Instead, they swore loyalty to Adolf Hitler. When the judiciary collapsed, so did the democratic Weimar Republic. The courts became instruments of oppression, legitimizing persecution and ...

They often happen in failed states. The inability of Germany’s Weimar Republic to secure liberal democratic values and civil discourse provided fertile ground for Nazism’s rise. The Nazi Party ...

The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across not just one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, but has led ...