In her book, Smith asserts that the film portrays a “causal relationship between decadence and fascism suggesting that Weimar culture allowed, through indifference, neglect, or complicity, the ...

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. The government was weak, the parliament was ...

As the First World War ended and Germany had been defeated, paramilitary groups emerged. The Friekorps formed from German soldiers returning home from the war. Their beliefs were nationalist, anti ...

Despite high hopes, the new republic was troubled throughout its short life, riven by radicalism on both the left and the right, catastrophically failing in the end, and giving way in 1933 to ...

Weimar life pops in this ‘degenerate’ portrait of a doctor to the stars Otto Dix refused to flatter his subjects — but they agreed to sit for him anyway.

Any account of Germany’s economically embattled, politically fractured and culturally avant-garde Weimar Republic is haunted by the same, insistent question: How could Weimar fail and Hitler happen?

As staged by the talented Blank Theatre Company, a group of friends gather in Berlin to try to understand their moment.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Ninety-two years ago this month, on Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. In one of the ...

Weimar Germany's fate unfolds amid interwoven narratives in extraordinary 'Berlin' at Court Theatre Director Charles Newell’s production is a thrillingly staged piece of theater, uncannily ...