In the final, tumultuous years of the Weimar Republic, a succession of arch-conservative chancellors ruled by emergency ...

The weekend programming over at CBS was unusually focused on speech norms and censorship in Germany. First, Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan casually asserted that free speech is what empowered ...

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Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party (German National Socialist Workers’ Party), became chancellor of the Weimar Republic on January 30, 1933. At the time, the Nazi Party was the largest party in ...

A fragile democracy, the Weimar Republic, briefly took hold in Germany before the Nazis seized power. Now, Weimar’s collapse is seen as a warning. The German National Theater in Weimar, Germany, where ...

The world has seen a version of this story before: A charismatic leader and demagogue with a God complex leads a populist-authoritarian movement and rises to power by claiming to be the savior of a ...

1945 the Allies force Weimar’s residents to witness the atrocities of the Nazi regime. 1914 Bookseller Carl Weirich moves to, and Jewish hotelier Rosa Schmidt returns to, Weimar. Show more The story ...