Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo” recaptures and endorses the era’s spirit of modern excess, and argues that it could have lasted. In the waning days of 1918, Germany felt humiliated by its military defeat in ...

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 ...

They "ate, slept, made love, raised children, and tried to keep body and soul together by finding ways to make a living." Those were the words of the late, great Wall Street Journal deputy editorial ...

The Oppermanns is a novel torn from history, but with lessons for today By Zach HagadoneReader Staff On the recommendation of ...