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 ...
The German visual artists who worked during the Weimar Republic — among them George Grosz, Hannah Höch, and Otto Dix — are celebrated the world over for their stylistic inventions and brutal critiques ...
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 emphasize Germany’s ...
Flapper girls and Nazi stormtroopers, prostitutes and proletarians, jazz troupes and jackboots — when the German hit series “Babylon Berlin” arrived on U.S. Netflix in January, so did all these Weimar ...