After the German Empire lost the First World War and the Kaiser abdicated, the newly established Weimar Republic lingered in an incredibly unstable and chaotic situation. Both the far left and far ...

How did a democratic system collapse from within? This analysis looks at postwar resentment, economic crises, political ...

Destitute Germans on the streets of Berlin, 1919 - Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images If you want to know where our polarised, gullible, narcissistic world might end up, I advise you to ...

Comparisons between the United States under Trump and Germany during the Hitler era are once again being made after the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Even in the eyes of German history ...

In modern discourse, the term “Weimar Republic” conjures a lurid host of associations, few of them related to the stately old German ducal city of Weimar. One thinks, instead, of the mythical Berlin ...

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 ...

Andreas Kluth is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US diplomacy, national security and geopolitics. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt Global and a writer for the Economist. Since ...

Last week, German Special Forces and police arrested twenty-five people across the country for plotting what authorities have called a coup against the German state. The scheme, by turns sinister and ...

The figurines, sculpted by Oskar Schlemmer for his 1922 Triadic Ballet, have taken up residence in a cavernous antechamber inside Walt Disney Concert Hall. The staggered wooden pedestals on which they ...