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 ...

Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic from 1923 to 1929, at the General Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva. (Wikimedia Commons). If the object of learning history is ...

Combining the study of film, history, social movements, psychopathology and art, ‘Weimar Film and Culture’ presents a portrait of Germany at its moment of greatest cultural crisis: between WWI and ...

The 1918–19 German Revolution is too often overlooked in the history books that chronicle social breakdowns in the Weimar Republic. Fortunately, “The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its ...

During the Weimar Republic, an art movement that looked at the nation with a cool eye developed in Germany. Labeled Neue Sachlichkeit-- new objectivity -- it reflected the resignation and cynicism of ...

A kitschy village in Weimar Germany, painted shortly before Hitler’s failed coup, reveals a society in free fall The German artist Georg Scholz (1890-1945) painted this picture of a small provincial ...

Germany after World War I was broke, humiliated—and brimming with bold ideas. The Weimar Republic fought to rebuild a nation ...