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Vor 2 Tagen · After the end of the First World War (1914–1918), Germany was exhausted and sued for peace in desperate circumstances. Awareness of imminent defeat sparked a revolution, the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II, formal surrender to the Allies, and the proclamation of the Weimar Republic on 9 November 1918.
Vor 3 Tagen · Founding Weimar remains a book about German history, but it is likely that the circulation of myths, rumours and fears that it describes did not stop at the borders of the German state. After all, the origins of many distorted representations of the Bolshevik menace during the German revolution lay in Russian events. How the so-called ...
Vor einem Tag · In 1925, Hindenburg returned to public life to become the second elected president of the German Weimar Republic. Personally opposed to Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party, Hindenburg nonetheless played a major role in the political instability that resulted in their rise to power.
Vor einem Tag · In the Weimar Republic, the Free State of Prussia lost nearly all of its legal and political importance following the 1932 coup led by Franz von Papen. Subsequently, it was effectively dismantled into Nazi German Gaue in 1935.
Vor einem Tag · Thinking in terms of OTL, the USA is a democratic republic but it will happily prop up authoritarian dictators if that is what aligns with America's interests. It would be the same in this timeline. The Axis in our timeline sought there conquest largely for ideological reasons and this governed there approaches to ruling places, while in this timeline I imagine Germany, Japan, and Italy would ...
Vor 4 Tagen · In March 2011, BBC Two broadcast a 90-minute adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s Christopher and His Kind (1976). Leaving aside its possible merits and/or shortcomings, the airing of this TV-dramatisation was indicative of an on-going fascination with Isherwood’s portrayal of the decadent, Nazi-ridden Berlin of the Weimar Republic, captured most famously in his Berlin Novels and in Bob ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Chapter two, entitled ‘The shadow of the Nazis’, focuses on the short-lived Weimar Republic. The narrative thread of this chapter is one that most readers will recognise. Grenville moves rapidly through the main staging points of republican Germany. The effects of the revolution and the Versailles Treaty are well dealt with, as is the ...
