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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.
4 days ago · The book is thus perhaps best viewed not so much as the final word on the issue of the authority and authoritarianism of the Weimar state and society as a jumping-off point and a spur to further inquiry. In any case, it certainly gives the student of the Weimar Republic much food for thought.
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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.
4 days ago · The conventional story of the Bauhaus and the Nazis is a classic tale of good and evil: after Germany’s defeat in the first world war and the abdication of the Kaiser, a group of (largely ...
5 days ago · The Weimar Republic was the post-World War One German government, a liberal democracy installed by the victorious Allies when the Kaiser abdicated in 1918. It was a failed government characterized by ruinous economic policies, moral decadence, crushing debt (imposed by the Allies), and a weak military (also imposed by the Allies). Germans seethed under its rule, and their discontent led ...
5 days ago · All three have published extensively on 20th-century Germany – Anthony McElligott recently completed a well-received monograph intended as a ‘rethinking’ of the Weimar Republic, Kirsten Heinsohn has made a key contribution to our understanding of the involvement of German women in conservative politics after the First World War, and Klaus ...
21 hours ago · One consequence of the war and the war economy, which is believed to have contributed to the destruction of the Weimar Republic, was the hyperinflation experienced between 1921 and 1923. By 1923, the average price indices for food prices and retailer prices (with 1913 = 1) were 198 billion and 166 billion, respectively, while wages rose ...
