As the First World War ended and Germany had been defeated, paramilitary groups emerged. The Friekorps formed from German ...
In the waning days of 1918, Germany felt humiliated by its military defeat in World War ... It is no wonder, then, that the ...
Kaplan has traveled the world, witnessed political and military conflicts ... global order is reminiscent on a larger scale of the Weimar Republic — Germany’s weak, democratic form of ...
The new constitution was agreed in August 1919 and the first elections in what became known as the Weimar Republic took place ... itself on the strength of its military. It also left Germans ...