Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party (German National Socialist Workers’ Party), became chancellor of the Weimar Republic ...

America seems to be heading inexorably toward a Weimar moment, a slide toward political polarization from which it could be increasingly difficult to return. Weimar — that brief, brilliant and tragic ...

What happens when a nation that was once an economic powerhouse turns its back on democracy and on its middle class, as wealthy right-wingers wage austerity campaigns and enable extremist politics? It ...

In Weimar Berlin, the stars seemed to align for German Jewish photographer Marianne Breslauer. Born into a family of art lovers, Breslauer was encouraged to pursue photography. She had been a pupil at ...

Riding in an open Jeep with his Thompson submachine gun at the ready, a young Army private from Olympia watched the blur of passing windows as his small convoy made its way through the streets of ...

In the early 1920s, the value of the papiermark (the native currency of the Weimar Republic of Germany) lost almost all of its purchasing power, causing tremendous instability within Weimar for many ...

The construction of the sexual-criminal woman, evident in early twentieth-century medical and social discourses, is part of the cultural currency of Weimar Germany. The femme fatale as criminal ...

Angry pacifists rampage through the streets of Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich in protest against West German membership in NATO. The CIA reports that they will burn down barracks of foreign troops next ...