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Apr 11, 2019 · For Deutsche Welle, Nadine Wojcik highlights flags stemming from a debate over the national emblem’s design. As she notes, the Weimar Republic saw a black, red and gold flag replace the black ...
The so-called sex reform movement of Weimar Germany (1919-1933), was dedicated to providing more sexual and, in turn, social freedoms to men and women. Its two major aims were to give working class men and women access to information about and means of birth control and to reform the Paragraphs 218 and 219 of the German Penal Code of 1871 that ...
Politics of the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933 Laurie Marhoefer Syracuse University Ideas about hereditary degeneration animated two powerful movements for sexual liberation during the Weimar Republic. One reform won the decriminalization of female prostitution. The other nearly won the repeal of Germany's sodomy law. Activists for the se
Apr 19, 2024 · Rethinking the Weimar Republic: Authority and Authoritarianism, 1916-1936. London, Bloomsbury, 2013, ISBN: 9780340731901; 384pp.; Price: £19.99. For a long time the historiography of Germany’s Weimar Republic has been stuck in a simple dichotomy of cultural experimentation and political and economic crisis.
Nov 20, 2019 · The Weimar Republic emerged out of the wreckage of World War 1. The Kaiser was gone, the 1919 Versailles Treaty saw the abolition of the German Empire and the loss of significant amounts of its territory. It was a troubled and tortured time for Germany.
Jul 5, 2019 · The SDP was running Germany, and they resolved to create a new constitution and republic. This was duly created, based at Weimar because the conditions in Berlin were unsafe, but problems with the allies’ demands in the Treaty of Versailles produced a rocky path, which only got worse in the early 1920s as reparations helped hyperinflation and impending economic collapse.
Nov 18, 2018 · As German Studies scholar Katie Sutton writes, that was activism by people in Weimar Germany who referred to themselves as “transvestites.”. Sutton writes that sex researcher and political activist Magnus Hirschfield invented the term “transvestism” in 1910. “Transvestites” were understood as people whose gender identity and ...
