The title of Katja Hoyer’s book is, and is not, misleading. It might appear to be a history of the Weimar Republic, the successor to the Second Reich, which took its name from the assembly that met ...

Volker Ullrich's book "Fateful Hours" examines the collapse of Germany's Weimar Republic. The book suggests democracies are ...

Nevertheless, in the preface to German historian Volker Ullrich’s new history, Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic, we hear that because “Democracies are fragile” and “can flip into ...

Ideological extremism and shortsighted political intrigue eroded German democracy and paved the way for Hitler’s ascension, according to this intricate study. Historian Ullrich (Germany 1923) argues ...

The politicians, the intellectuals, the foreign visitors who converged on Berlin in the wake of the first world war all wrote ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Destitute Germans on the streets of Berlin, 1919 - Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images If you want to know where our ...

Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer explores the city – and citizens – at the heart of Germany’s ill-fated ...

In the waning days of 1918, Germany felt humiliated by its military defeat in World War I and exhausted after a political revolution turned it into a parliamentary democracy. But despite the upheaval, ...

It was spring of 1920, and troops were marching on Berlin. Conservative officers, who had helped the Weimar Republic defeat communist insurgents, were now turning on the politicians who led the ...

The German visual artists who worked during the Weimar Republic — among them George Grosz, Hannah Höch, and Otto Dix — are celebrated the world over for their stylistic inventions and brutal critiques ...

Carnegie Hall’s Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice festival begins this weekend with two concerts featuring Franz Welser-Möst conducting the Cleveland Orchestra. One of the many ...

A Copenhagen exhibition offers a rich view into the creative production and daily life in the Weimar Republic, with its glamour and its grotesquerie. I sat with the poem while music of the era played ...