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Apr 21, 2022 · Hitler’s “Stoßtrupp” in Munich, 1923, via MDR. On the 9th of November 1923, Adolf Hitler attempted his first rise to power, which became known as Hitlerputsch, or Beer Hall Putsch. Over the 8th and 9th of November, Hitler and the Nazi Party, then a small, far-right group, began marching from the Beer Hall in Munich to Berlin in order to ...
“Degeneration, Sexual Freedom, and the Politics of the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933.” German Studies Review 34 No. 3 (2011): 529-550.
May 25, 2019 · directed by Josef von Sternberg. This landmark 1930 tragicomedy – of a troubled teacher whose life is slowly destroyed after he falls obsessively in love with a cabaret singer – made an ...
The home of the world's first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation. Immortalized - however misleadingly - in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories and the musical Cabaret, Weimar's freedoms have become a touchstone for the politics of sexual emancipation.
Jun 8, 2020 · Reception to modern art in Germany had varied under past governments. When Kaiser Wilhelm II ruled (1888-1918), the country had a conservative social climate. Avant-garde art was not widely appreciated. After World War I, Germany was ruled by a democratic government known as the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). The country saw a more liberal ...
Jan 30, 2008 · Interview: Sonia Phalnikar01/30/2008. Seventy-five years ago, Hitler came to power, ending the Weimar Republic. Did Germany's experiment with democracy between 1919 and 1933 ever stand a real ...
This article was most recently revised and updated by Adam Augustyn. Weimar Republic - Nazi Rise, Hyperinflation, Collapse: The basis of German prosperity in the late 1920s was precarious, as it was largely dependent on foreign credits. When these dried up and the loans already made were called in, Germany was plunged into a slump more severe ...
