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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the record, John Lukacs has many great observations about the differences between patriotism and nationalism. The difference, to me and I believe to him, is that nationalism is rooted in the ...

Siegfried Kracauer’s 1928 novel “Ginster,” now out in its first English translation, is a triple oddity: an anti-war novel without any war scenes; a one-off work of fiction from a brilliant and ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Los Angeles Philharmonic's Weimar Republic: Germany 1918-1933, through ...