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1 day ago · On 9 November 1918, the German Republic was proclaimed by MSPD member Philipp Scheidemann at the Reichstag building in Berlin, angering Friedrich Ebert, the leader of the MSPD, who thought that the question of monarchy or republic should be answered by a national assembly.
- Hyperinflation in The Weimar Republic
Piles of new Notgeld banknotes awaiting distribution at the...
- Weimar Culture
Bauhaus Dessau, built from 1925 to 1926 to a design by...
- Coat of Arms
The coat of arms of Germany displays a black eagle with a...
- Timeline of The Weimar Republic
The Timeline of the Weimar Republic lists in chronological...
- Kaiser Wilhelm II
Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859...
- Free State of Prussia
The Free State of Prussia (German: Freistaat Preußen,...
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A republic, based on the Latin phrase res publica ('public...
- Matthias Erzberger
Matthias Erzberger (20 September 1875 – 26 August 1921) was...
- Hyperinflation in The Weimar Republic
May 20, 2024 · Reichstag fire, burning of the Reichstag (parliament) building in Berlin on the night of February 27, 1933, a key event in the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship and widely believed to have been contrived by the newly formed Nazi government to turn public opinion against its opponents and to assume new powers.
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1 day ago · 10 November 1918 – 11 August 1919. (9 months and 1 week) Location. Germany. Result. Weimar Republic victory. Fall of the German Empire ( Abdication of Wilhelm II) Suppression of leftist uprisings, including the Spartacist uprising. Establishment of the Weimar Republic.
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2 days ago · Table 1: Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic (Ferguson, 1996, p. 656) The economic instability of the Weimar Republic was further compounded by the global economic crisis of the late 1920s and early 1930s. The Great Depression hit Germany particularly hard, leading to widespread unemployment, poverty, and social unrest.
1 day ago · Name Common English terms for the German state in the Nazi era are "Nazi Germany" and the "Third Reich", which Hitler and the Nazis also referred to as the "Thousand-Year Reich" (Tausendjähriges Reich). The latter, a translation of the Nazi propaganda term Drittes Reich, was first used in Das Dritte Reich, a 1923 book by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck. The book counted the Holy Roman Empire ...
13 hours ago · Pyta sees the years 1925–30 as a period in which Hindenburg ‘experimented’ with an inclusive Volksgemeinschaft ‘in order to test’ if it could be achieved under Weimar. However, by 1930 the republic seemed more divided than ever and as the Reichstag seemed to exemplify this Hindenburg decided to try a more authoritarian approach in ...
1 day ago · The key contribution of Founding Weimar is to reveal the crucial role of fears, rumours, misrepresentations of reality, and anxiety in the processes of political violence that marred the birth of the Weimar Republic. The breeding ground of such psychological reactions was street politics: the struggle for the appropriation and occupation of ...