Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany” and Frank McDonough’s “The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933” examine the era through different lenses. But both ...

The Weimar Republic was a time of endless crises. Its existence ceased to exist after less than 14 years with the arrival of Adolf Hitler. Few at the time mourned German democracy. Weimar democracy.

What accounts for the intermittent but enduring appeal of the Comedian Harmonists, a male sextet that thrived in Weimar Germany? Largely forgotten until the 1970s, the group has spawned tribute ...

The short-lived Weimar Republic—which spanned the years after Germany’s defeat in World War I until 1933, when Hitler came to power—has become a paradigmatic example of democratic collapse ...

In 1923, the collapse of the Weimar Republic’s economy impoverished millions and gave Adolf Hitler his first chance at seizing power In January 1923, a dollar cost 17,000 marks.