By contrast, the United States in 2025 has until now had a strong democratic tradition, stable institutions and a military ...

Adolf Hitler was a master of manufacturing public-security crises to advance his authoritarian agenda. He used inflammatory ...

But I’ve now read in more depth about the hyperinflation of Weimar Germany, in the form of the book When Money Dies, by Adam Fergusson (first published in 1975, and reprinted in 2010), and have ...

The word "Weimar" does not have the best associations for democratically-minded Germans. It was Feb. 6, 1919, when 423 deputies (including 37 women) of the National Assembly gathered in the court ...

Harald Jähner’s new history of the Weimar era vividly portrays and endorses this spirit of excess. Its very title, “Vertigo,” fittingly conjures the sensation of spinning dizziness.(It’s ...

Weimar Germany after World War One went through one of the worst hyperinflations in history, unleashing untold horrors on the German people and their economy. Memories of Weimar still haunt the ...

Weimar Germany after World War One went through one of the worst hyperinflations in history, unleashing untold horrors on the German people and their economy. To this day, "Weimar" is always ...

Weimar Germany after World War One went through one of the worst hyperinflations in history, unleashing untold horrors on the German people and their economy. To this day, "Weimar" is always ...

Weimar Berlin's depraved, sin-filled nights tantalize the imagination anew in Mel Gordon's "Voluptuous Panic." ...

The Weimar Republic was born in the aftermath of Germany’s defeat in World War I. Germany’s emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, was forced off the throne on Nov. 9, 1918, and politicians from the SPD ...

Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany” and Frank McDonough’s “The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933” examine the era through different lenses. But both ...