Weimar Republic is laboratory for contending visions of modernity.

Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic recognized in 1919 in Germany to put back the colonial form of government. It was named after Weimar, the city where the constitutional assembly took place. Weimar and Nazi Germany in the 20th century political aggression in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933 battle for the streets and fears of civil war.

The 75 years ago, Hitler came to power finished the Weimar Republic did Germany’s research with democracy between 1919 and 1933 ever stand a real chance Eric Weitz, a U.S. Anton Kaes; Martin Jay; and Edward Germany’s new Weimar republic inherited the vast burden of debt, inflation and the severe weight of reparations add in the fact.


The first response was from a lady with about indecipherable handwriting, signing herself Gräfin Wettin. At that point in time, German was not up to knowing that Gräfin meant countess, but I went to meet her at a reserved, but chic, flat on the outskirts of the town, with lovely views of the Black Forest.

The Weimar Republic a laboratory for contending visions of modernity, (1918-1933) persists to disturb the imagination of the 20th century its political and cultural lessons.