In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined in twentieth-century Germany by Dr Bodie Ashton and comedian Jordan Gray to learn all about LGBTQ life during the Weimar Republic. Show more In this episode ...

It was a period of inflation and confrontation, of failed coups and armed uprisings, of assassinations and reparations, of repression and the Great Depression, of reaction and reform. There was an ...

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 ...

A Nobel prize laureate, literary exile and conscience of a nation in the wake of Nazi rule, Thomas Mann remains a cultural ...

Historians of the Weimar Republic, which Hitler and his National Socialists extinguished within weeks, face a special challenge. The world-shaking cultural trends that make Germany’s trajectory ...

Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany” and Frank McDonough ... But, as in his excellent 2022 book, “Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 ...

A more subtle form of this labeling comes in the form of comparing our current situation to that of the Weimar Republic — Germany’s first ... throughout its short life, riven by radicalism ...

Before exile: Wolfgang Yourgrau, still in his 20s, enjoys the life of a young intellectual in Weimar Germany. Inset: Yourgrau’s entry health certificate to Palestine shows him in formal attire.

a wealthy businessman recognizes his talent and offers him a job that will change his life. During the rise of Nazism in Germany, and especially after the de facto demise of the Weimar Republic in ...

Otto Dix refused to flatter his subjects — but they agreed to sit for him anyway. I’m no prognosticator, but I’m anticipating the return, any day now, of the house style of Germany’s ...