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May 29, 2019 · The handout Introduction to the Weimar Republic is designed to help students follow along with the lecture. You may choose to transfer the information from the handout to a PowerPoint presentation. If you would like to add images and other multimedia resources, The Weimar Republic: The Fragility of Democracy can help you get started.
Sep 26, 2022 · History teacher Jacob Montwieler is teaching a unit on Weimar Germany. He begins the class with a whole-group discussion of information students have read in Chapter 4 of Holocaust and Human Behavior, and then he has students consider several primary source documents from the Weimar Republic Primary Sources collection.
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After the German Empire was defeated in World War I, Germany became a republic, but it was still called "Deutsches Reich" (German Empire). Today it is called the Weimar Republic and this period is called the Weimar period, because the constitution was made in the city of Weimar.
What we now call The Weimar Republic came to an end on 23 March 1933, when Chancellor Adolf Hitler installed the Enabling Act, which established the Third Reich.
Sailors during the mutiny in Kiel, November 1918Official postcard of the National AssemblyOne-million mark notes used as notepaper, October 1923The forces of social revolution were gradually defeated, and the way was paved for the establishment of a democratic republic. The new National Assembly met at Weimar from February 6 to August 11, 1919, and drew up a new constitution; hence the name Weimar Republic. The new constitution created a strong central government.
A timeline of the Weimar Republic gives an overview from its foundation in 1918 to its end in 1933, focusing on its early years. The clip explains reasons for the abdication of the Kaiser in the ...
