Any account of Germany’s economically embattled, politically fractured and culturally avant-garde Weimar Republic is haunted by the same, insistent question: How could Weimar fail and Hitler happen?

Why does Germany's political system keep producing unstable coalitions? From the fall of the Weimar Republic to today's fragmented parliament, we break down the roots of this recurring crisis.

In the waning days of 1918, Germany felt humiliated by its military defeat in World War I and exhausted after a political revolution turned it into a parliamentary democracy. But despite the ...

A more subtle form of this labeling comes in the form of comparing our current situation to that of the Weimar Republic — Germany’s first attempt to create a constitutional democratic republic ...

Trump's decision to call in the National Guard to quell unrest recalls the ways in which Hitler asserted and consolidated ...

Weimar, Germany — On April 12, 1945, CBS News correspondent Edward R. Murrow walked through the gates of the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He was unprepared for the horrors ...

Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany” and Frank McDonough’s “The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933” examine the era through different lenses. But both ...