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I’m no prognosticator, but I’m anticipating the return, any day now, of the house style of Germany’s Weimar Republic. I’m not thinking “Cabaret” and kohl eyeliner so much as the shrewd ...
In August, they adopted a democratic constitution. The Weimar Republic did not go down well in history, because that first attempt at making Germany a democracy did not end well, to say the least.
According to State Secretary Lammers, the present German Constitution signed at Weimar in 1919 may now be considered a negligible scrap of paper. “The Leader does not want Germany to have a ...
As well as being a smaller security forum in which Germany, France and Poland can find common ground on EU security and foreign policy, the Weimar triangle has at times taken on an active ...
Notable with Germany is that Jahner writes that “The fear of falling radicalized the middle class and drove them toward the National Socialists.” But it wasn’t just the middle classes.
During the rise of Nazism in Germany, and especially after the de facto demise of the Weimar Republic in 1933, many intellectuals, scientists, and other educated people chose to emigrate in search ...
In the years that followed Hitler’s release from prison, Nazis fanned out across Germany to build up the party’s organization, especially in rural areas and small towns, where people were ...