By contrast, the United States in 2025 has until now had a strong democratic tradition, stable institutions and a military ...

Weimar Republic The Freikorps. Posted: 18 February 2025 | Last updated: 8 March 2025. As the First World War ended and Germany had been defeated, paramilitary groups emerged.

There is far more to 1919-1939 Germany than it simply being a prelude to Hitler’s rise to power. As financial ruin, military defeat, and a humiliating treaty blew in gales, Germans pushed for a ...

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 ...

The Weimar Republic was born in the aftermath of Germany’s defeat in World War I. Germany’s emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, was forced off the throne on Nov. 9, 1918, and politicians from the SPD ...

Robert Kaplan is one of our nation’s best geopolitical thinkers. He has the remarkable ability to explain contemporary world events by combining classical geopolitical analysis with an ...

Was Weimar Germany doomed? A vibrant new history argues it wasn’t. Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo” recaptures and endorses the era’s spirit of modern excess, and argues that it could have lasted.

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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 ...

Poland will host joint military exercises of the Weimar Triangle countries in 2025, the Polish defence minister has said. 24.06.2024 15:19 update: 25.06.2024 14:32 Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.