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2 days ago · After the end of the First World War (1914–1918), Germany was exhausted and sued for peace in desperate circumstances. Awareness of imminent defeat sparked a revolution, the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II, formal surrender to the Allies, and the proclamation of the Weimar Republic on 9 November 1918.
3 days ago · For generations of students and scholars the first German republic was seen as an ill-fated experiment in parliamentary democracy, an inherently flawed polity unloved by its citizens, fatally undermined from the outset by the circumstances in which it had come into being and beset by almost perpetual political and economic crises.
May 6, 2024 · Inspired by Peter Fritzsche’s seminal 1996 review article in the Journal of Contemporary History a generation of scholars have argued persuasively that rather than being ‘weak’, ‘unloved’ or ‘doomed’, the Weimar Republic was in fact the home to a vibrant, if fractious, political culture with levels of political engagement that ...
Apr 18, 2024 · Dr. Michael Berenbaum presents “The Fragility of Democracy, Reflections on the Weimar Republic, and Why the Holocaust Still Echoes in the World Today,” examining the transition from a fragile democracy to a totalitarian regime in Germany and its relevance to current global challenges in democratic stability.
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6 days 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.
Apr 30, 2024 · Franz von Papen (born Oct. 29, 1879, Werl, Ger.—died May 2, 1969, Obersasbach, W.Ger.) was a German statesman and diplomat who played a leading role in dissolving the Weimar Republic and in helping Adolf Hitler to become German chancellor in 1933. The scion of a wealthy Catholic landowning family, Papen began his career as a professional soldier.
1 day ago · The German Revolution of 1918–1919, also known as the November Revolution ( German: Novemberrevolution ), was an uprising started by workers and soldiers in the final days of World War I.
