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 ...

WARSAW — Much depends on with whom and how Friedrich Merz will govern in Europe. But we know for sure that a weak Germany will mean a weak European Union. And that is exactly what Vladimir Putin and ...

President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a Jan. 6 rally in Washington before the crowd moved on to storm the Capitol. Jacquelyn Martin AP The short-lived Weimar Republic (1919-1933) in Germany has ...

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 ...

"We didn’t just want to view Weimar from its ending,” exhibition curator Simone Erpel says Deutsches Historisches Museum/David von Becker When you think of the Weimar Republic, you likely envision a ...

In her latest book, Associate Professor of German Jill Smith explains her frustration at a tendency to oversimplify a key period of twentieth-century European history—and it’s all down to a 1970s ...

Carnegie Hall has announced its 2023-24 performing arts season today, featuring approximately 170 classical, jazz, cabaret, opera, Broadway and other musical performances starting this fall. The ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Carnegie’s intermittently illuminating festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic” has suffered from interjections of too much standard ...

Nevertheless, in the preface to German historian Volker Ullrich’s new history, Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic, we hear that because “Democracies are fragile” and “can flip into ...

“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 ...