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3 days ago · These studies have revealed the complex and fragmented nature of German politics, culture and society in this period, and in doing so made ‘the traditional dichotomous image of cultural boom and political chaos’, once seen as so important to understanding the period, unsustainable.
1 day ago · While violent political struggle was par for the course in the Weimar Republic, the parliamentary system still functioned throughout most of its lifespan. If Putsch attempts are too hard to pull off, there is always the option to win a general election instead (the very idea might seem repugnant to a Conservative that is truly Radical, but as ...
2 days ago · The Weimar Republic, [b] officially known as the German Reich, [c] 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 · That also, of course, is why the communitarian Constitution of the Weimar Republic was so anathema to the National Socialist regime. The final point to note in this thumbnail of National Socialism is that there is no room for any type of continuation of the Weimar Republic’s collective democracy.
5 days ago · The Weimar Republic The Weimar Republic was Germany's government from 1919 to 1933, the period after World War I until the rise of Nazi Germany. It was named after the town of Weimar where Germany's new government was formed by a national assembly after Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated. From its uncertain beginnings to a brief season of success and ...
4 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 ...
1 day ago · A large number of its opponents had been left in positions of power, and it failed to resolve the fracture in the political Left between moderate socialists and communists. The Weimar Republic as a result was beset from the beginning by opponents from both the Left and – to a greater degree – the Right.
