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 ...

Death of a Democracy by Victor Sebestyen; Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer ...

Among young people, there's something Tom Wolfe might have called assassination chic, focusing on 27-year-old Luigi Mangione.

Built to reclaim German pride on the seas, the SS Bremen shattered the Atlantic speed record in 1929 and embodied everything ...

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

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 ...

The fledgling democracy under the German Weimar Republic after World War I soon collapsed into Nazi authoritarianism.

The problem with the “doom crowd” constant screeching over debt levels is that, like the article, it treats U.S. government ...

From haven for intellectuals fleeing Hitler to the HQ of the feared Abwehr, the changing fortunes of a Parisian icon ...

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