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Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe is BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week for a fortnight. Art historian John-Paul Stonard's ...

The focal point of the German enlightenment, Weimar had been home to Goethe, Schiller, Liszt and Nietzsche, and was the ...

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 emphasize Germany’s ...

On the Edge of Catastrophe is written by Katja Hoyer. The reader is Sian Thomas. The abridger is Julian Wilkinson. The ...

The Weimar Germany period is a recurring historical topic. It seems to pop up every few years. But when historians and columnists refer to Weimar Germany, they are usually focused on the years of 1930 ...

A new exhibition in Berlin highlights how quickly a loss of respect for democracy can end in catastrophe Enter the disturbing special exhibition that has recently opened in Berlin’s German Historical ...

The progressive but flawed document was a "turning point in German history." While it enshrined many human rights, its shortcomings aided Hitler's rise to power. The German government marked the ...

Danyal Bayaz has experienced many things during his first few weeks as a new MP, but boredom is not one of them. Two months after entering Germany’s parliament as a Green party candidate, Bayaz, 34, ...