Weimar Germany
Post-Kaiser democratic era
Weimar Germany refers to the German state from 1919 to 1933, between World War I and the Nazi rise to power.
Named for the city where its democratic constitution was drafted, the Weimar Republic became synonymous with political instability, hyperinflation, and cultural ferment—a cautionary tale of democracy's fragility: Weimar Germany's chaos paved the way for Hitler.
- hyperinflationExtreme rapid price escalation
- ReichstagGerman parliamentary assembly
- constitutionInherent physical or structural makeup
- BauhausInfluential modernist design school
- League of NationsEarly twentieth-century international body
Thomas Mann · reparations · Kellogg-Briand Pact · Dadaism · Great Depression · political instability · proportional representation · Marlene Dietrich · anti-Semitism · Treaty of Versailles · stab in the back · cabaret · cigarette girls · Albert Einstein · Bertolt Brecht · street violence · unemployment · Berlin
Weimar GermanyNazi Germany
Hitler's fascist dictatorship
Third Reich · German Empire · fascist Italy · Soviet Russia · East Germany
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