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 ...

Seven states seceded from the Union before James Buchanan left office in 1861, and within months of Lincoln’s inauguration, the forces of slavocracy directly threatened the capital with the ...

WEIMAR, Thuringia, Germany — Walking through Weimar, Germany, the legacy of the Holocaust seems inescapable. Stolpersteine — German for “stumbling blocks” — are placed outside the homes of people ...

Few European cities have a history as culturally rich as Weimar, once home to Goethe, a giant of world literature It is difficult not to fall in love with the young Sibylle von JUlich-Kleve-Berg, as ...

What accounts for the intermittent but enduring appeal of the Comedian Harmonists, a male sextet that thrived in Weimar Germany? Largely forgotten until the 1970s, the group has spawned tribute bands, ...

In the early 1920s, the value of the papiermark (the native currency of the Weimar Republic of Germany) lost almost all of its purchasing power, causing tremendous instability within Weimar for many ...

WEIMAR, Germany — In the winter of 1919, the leaders of the newly founded German Republic, having overthrown Emperor Wilhelm II at the end of World War I, went looking for a city to hold a ...