Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party (German National Socialist Workers’ Party), became chancellor of the Weimar Republic on January 30, 1933. At the time, the Nazi Party was the largest party in ...

It's a question often asked since World War II: How could the Germany that produced poets such as Goethe and composers such as Beethoven, Handel and Bach have crafted the horrors of the Third Reich?

A fight breaks out on the streets of Berlin between supporters of rival candidates ahead of voting in the second round of Presidential elections in Germany. April 26, 1925. Credit - Mirrorpix/Getty ...

The Democratic Party of this decade has been as steeped in violent action as the Nazis and Communists were during the waning days of the Weimar Republic.

The republic was hastily patched together as the only alternative to war and revolution. The newly proclaimed Weimar Republic—named after the city in which it was founded—had an impossible job. Europe ...