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

After the German Empire lost the First World War and the Kaiser abdicated, the newly established Weimar Republic lingered in ...

The more things change the more they stay the same; our modern inflationary currencies are beginning to mirror that of Weimar. In the early 1920s, the value of the papiermark (the native currency of ...

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 ...

Riding in an open Jeep with his Thompson submachine gun at the ready, a young Army private from Olympia watched the blur of passing windows as his small convoy made its way through the streets of ...

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 ...

In Weimar Berlin, the stars seemed to align for German Jewish photographer Marianne Breslauer. Born into a family of art lovers, Breslauer was encouraged to pursue photography. She had been a pupil at ...

Andreas Kluth is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US diplomacy, national security and geopolitics. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt Global and a writer for the Economist. Since ...

A lively and deeply informed account of the era when Los Angeles served as a place of refuge for German, Austrian and Eastern ...