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21 hours ago · The Weimar Republic, [c] officially known as the German Reich, [d] 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.
3 days ago · The Weimar Republic has long been synonymous in the public mind with political instability, economic crisis and cultural ferment. In recent years this image has been cemented as Weimar has been co-opted by many commentators in the United States and Europe as a benchmark for ‘crisis’, an exemplar of failure against which the political and economic uncertainties of our times are measured in ...
2 days ago · In March 2011, BBC Two broadcast a 90-minute adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s Christopher and His Kind (1976). Leaving aside its possible merits and/or shortcomings, the airing of this TV-dramatisation was indicative of an on-going fascination with Isherwood’s portrayal of the decadent, Nazi-ridden Berlin of the Weimar Republic, captured most famously in his Berlin Novels and in Bob ...
2 days ago · The Weimar judiciary has traditionally been seen as ‘an authoritarian “third force” working against the republic’ (p. 100) and ever since the publication of Emil Gumbel’s Vier Jahre politischer Mord the emphasis has been on political trials and the light sentences handed down to right-wing opponents of the republic. But as McElligott ...
2 days ago · This was an unsuccessful right wing revolt in 1923 by Hitler and 3,000 supporters to overthrow the Weimar government. It gave a lot of publicity to Hitler and the Nazis. It gave a lot of publicity to Hitler and the Nazis.
5 days ago · The Weimar Republic was established at the end of the First World War following the abdication of the Kaiser. However, it had collapsed by 1933 and was followed by a ruthless dictatorship which had devastating effects, not just for Germany but for the whole of Europe and indeed the world,Thus the Weimar Republic and why it collapsed has been the subject of much debate by historians.
1 day ago · The Klassik Stiftung Weimar’s annual exhibition is the first to address the topic of “Bauhaus and National Socialism”. Presented at three museums in the city of Weimar, the show unites some 450 works of art and design from private collections and renowned museums in Europe and the US. These works tell the story of the Bauhaus’s complex ...
