Opponents of European Central Bank intervention to bail out the eurozone consistently cite Germany's experiences with hyperinflation in the early 1920s as a reason that the bank can not or should not ...

Hugenberg was Weimar, Germany’s version of William Randolph Hearst (think Rupert Murdoch today), owning newspapers, a news service and the Ufa film studio. Their news stories and movies often mirrored ...

“Nothing is more exotic than what surrounds us, nothing is more imaginative than objectivity,” said the Austrian-Czech writer Egon Erwin Kisch in 1925. Kisch is among the dozens of writers, painters, ...

You could almost suppose that Germany has no past before 1933, so massively does the Third Reich overwhelm popular thought and historical writing about the country. But it does, and one of the most ...

Think “Weimar” and you think decadence and doom. There is certainly plenty of both on display in “Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919-33”, a new exhibition at Tate Modern in London. But rather ...

“The painter is the eyes of the world”, Otto Dix once wrote. It could have been the motto of the “New Objectivity” movement that took hold in Germany in the years after the first world war. Adherents ...

Assassinations, coups, and street brawls may be symptoms of democratic decay—or an intentional strategy wielded by ...

The most devastating inflation the world has ever seen was in Weimar Germany. After the First World War, the value of the Reichsmark collapsed in a few short years from 4.2 to $1 to 4.2 trillion to $1 ...

America seems to be heading inexorably toward a Weimar moment, a slide toward political polarization from which it could be increasingly difficult to return. Weimar — that brief, brilliant and tragic ...

What happens when a nation that was once an economic powerhouse turns its back on democracy and on its middle class, as wealthy right-wingers wage austerity campaigns and enable extremist politics? It ...