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1 day ago · The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
- 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...
- 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...
- Constitutional
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
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 ...
4 days ago · The Reichstag building in flames on the night of February 27, 1933. Source: Smithsonian Magazine On March 23, 1933, Adolf Hitler managed to secure the passage of the so-called Enabling Act, a law allowing him to issue decrees without the previous approval of the parliament and the president. Having finally obtained virtually absolute powers, Hitler began the Gleichschaltung (coordination), a ...
5 days ago · The votes that the Nazis received in the 1932 elections established the Nazi Party as the largest parliamentary faction of the Weimar Republic government. Hitler was appointed as Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933. The Reichstag fire on 27 February 1933 gave Hitler a
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4 days ago · Contrary to popular belief, therefore, it was not the strength of the German right, but its weakness, that imperilled the Weimar Republic (pp. 591–5). Jones’s invaluable monograph illustrates the threat posed by a conservative party that wavers in its commitment to democracy and panders to a radicalised grass-roots base.
5 days ago · Third Reich, official Nazi designation for the regime in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945, as the presumed successor of the Holy Roman Empire (800–1806; First Reich) and the German Empire (1871–1918; Second Reich). Learn more about the history and significance of the Third Reich in this article.
2 days 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 ...