After the German Empire lost the First World War and the Kaiser abdicated, the newly established Weimar Republic lingered in ...

WARSAW — Much depends on with whom and how Friedrich Merz will govern in Europe. But we know for sure that a weak Germany will mean a weak European Union. And that is exactly what Vladimir Putin and ...

The Weimar Republic was a hotbed of cultural experimentation. A new history argues that its demise was not inevitable. By Thomas Meaney Thomas Meaney is the editor of Granta. When you purchase an ...

In her latest book, Associate Professor of German Jill Smith explains her frustration at a tendency to oversimplify a key period of twentieth-century European history—and it’s all down to a 1970s ...

Destitute Germans on the streets of Berlin, 1919 - Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images If you want to know where our polarised, gullible, narcissistic world might end up, I advise you to ...

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 emphasize Germany’s ...

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