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 ...

Nevertheless, in the preface to German historian Volker Ullrich’s new history, Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic, we hear that because “Democracies are fragile” and “can flip into ...

Germany's far-right populists are on the rise, as are random, violent street killings. People are dizzy with the potential – and danger – of new mass media. And, all over Berlin, posters have gone up ...

Germany’s Weimar Constitution originated the semi-presidential constitutional system and was used as a reference for the drafting of the Republic of China’s Constitution. Under the Weimar Constitution ...

The armistice was signed by representatives of the new, civilian government, including Ebert and members of the SPD. This meant that later, their opponents started to call them the 'November Criminals ...

Justice Minister Wijayadasa Rajapakshe told Parliament on Tuesday that the Supreme Court’s suspension of a section of the Constitution was like Adolf Hitler suspending the operation of civil rights ...

If it’s an election year it must be time to revisit the tragic fate of the short-lived Weimar Republic. Critics of the Republican presidential convention's allegedly "dark" tone see even more reason ...

Finance Minister Taro Aso has come under fire for comments that some listeners interpreted as suggesting Tokyo should look to Nazi Germany as a model in changing its pacifist constitution -- though ...