Adolf Hitler's dreams for a 1,000-year empire thankfully ended in ruin more than 70 years ago, but his crimes still cast a long shadow over humanity. Newsweek's Special Edition—Hitler: Can His Evil ...

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 ...

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

In the 1930s, Harvard was joined to Washington, D.C. as it had never been before. It pioneered graduate education in public and foreign policy, offering a tangible credential to political ambition. It ...

A decade before he rose to power with the Nazis, Adolf Hitler failed to overthrow Germany's Weimar Republic in 1923. What became known as the "Beer Hall Putsch" put ...

“New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933,” opened Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It’s a tough show. Tough as nails. You will clench your jaw as the 14 ...

What happens when a nation that was once an economic powerhouse turns its back on democracy and on its middle class, as wealthy right-wingers wage austerity campaigns and enable extremist politics? It ...

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 ...

“Since the Weimar debate has continued to repeat itself, albeit with less intellectual brilliance,” Susan Sontag once wrote about the social chaos and unfettered artistic creativity that didn’t end ...

“Nothing is more exotic than what surrounds us, nothing is more imaginative than objectivity,” said the Austrian-Czech writer Egon Erwin Kisch in 1925. Kisch is among the dozens of writers, painters, ...

Greg Jenner is joined in 20th-century Germany by Dr Bodie Ashton and comedian Jordan Gray to learn all about LGBTQ life during the Weimar Republic. Show more Greg Jenner is joined in 20th-century ...