On March 23, the Reichstag delegates met across the street from the burned ruins of the Reichstag in the Kroll Opera House.

The Treaty of Versailles, which was signed on 28 June 1919, was intended to bring peace following World War I — but instead ...

In August, they adopted a democratic constitution. The Weimar Republic did not go down well in history, because that first attempt at making Germany a democracy did not end well, to say the least.

Hitler was furious when he learned that Strasser had met with Schleicher to explore potential cooperation. He accused ...

Sadly, she was wrong. In fairness to Brennan, she was repeating an all too common assumption: that the Nazis rose to power during Germany’s Weimar Republic because of its tolerance of their ...

In the 1920s and ’30s, clerks at The Times collected stamps from overseas mail. The postage tells of a fluid world history.

The Weimar Republic was politically fragile. But the bourgeois habits were very strong. Ordinary citizens worked at their jobs, sent their children to school and worried about their grades ...

A World in Permanent Crisis paints a portrait of civilisation in flux. Drawing insights from history, literature and art, he ...