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 Weimar Republic
Rethinking the Weimar Republic extends the paramaters of the republic to the period from 1916 to 1936.
Weimar Republic - The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic (German Weimarer Republik, IPA: []).
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 Glossary of the Weimar Republic
These are terms, concepts and ideas that are useful to understanding the political situation in the Weimar Republic.
Kapp Putsch — (also Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch) of March, 1920 was an attempted military coup of the extreme right-wing aimed at overthrowing the Weimar Republic.
It was a direct result of the Weimar government's acceptance of the Treaty of Versailles.
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 Weimar culture - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Weimar Republic refers to the years (1919-1933) in German history.
German artists made significant cultural contributions in the fields of literature, art, architecture, music, dance, drama, and the new medium of the motion picture that still have worldwide cultural impact today.
Weimar culture is too rich and complex to intelligently generalize about.
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 Germany The Weimar Republic, 1918-33 - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
The Weimar Republic, proclaimed on November 9, 1918, was born in the throes of military defeat and social revolution.
In mid-1919 the assembly ratified the constitution of the new Weimar Republic, so named because its constitution was drafted in the small city where the poets Goethe and Schiller had lived.
The republic's government was a mixed strong president and parliamentary system, with the president seen by many as a sort of substitute kaiser.
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  Glossary of the Weimar Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These are terms, concepts and ideas that are useful to understanding the political situation in the Weimar Republic.
Kapp Putsch — (also Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch) of March, 1920 was an attempted military coup of the extreme right-wing aimed at overthrowing the Weimar Republic.
It was a direct result of the Weimar government's acceptance of the Treaty of Versailles.
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 Weimar Timeline - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This Weimar Timeline charts the chronology of the Weimar Republic, including the pre-history before the adoption of the actual Weimar constitution.
August 11, 1919 The Weimar Constitution is announced.
Weimar Timeline, End of the Kaiserreich, 1918, 1919, Weimar Republic, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, See also, References, Related media, Weimar Republic, Germany-related lists and Nation timelines.
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 Republic
Weimar Republic is the unofficial name of the German government from 1918-1933.
The temples built during the period of the Roman Republic were some of the most sacred and important buildings in the city of Rome.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Eckart Kehr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Called the "enfant terrible" of the German historical profession during the Weimar Republic, his doctoral thesis in 1930 titled Schlachtflottenbau und Parteipolitik described the domestic economic sources of Germany's naval policy during the years from 1894 to 1902.
The Weimar Republic (German Weimarer Republik, IPA: []) is the common name for the republic that governed Germany from 1919 to 1933.
Kehr wrote controversial histories that contributed (from the viewpoint of the fringe and in the manner of the sidebar) to the debate about Germany's political, social, and economic development during the struggle to build, or to destroy, the Weimar Republic and Germany's experiment with democratic government.
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 Channel4.com - The First World War - text only
Weimar Republic : The name given to the German democratic republic that emerged following the abdication of the Kaiser in November 1918.
A national assembly was elected to draft a constitution for the new republic in January 1919, and this assembly met in the small city of Weimar, home to the poets Goethe and Schiller.
The Weimar Republic was finally extinguished by the Nazis in 1933-34.
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 Science Fair Projects - Nazi Germany
This was done in order to suggest a return to alleged former German glory after the perceived failure of the 1919 Weimar Republic.
Weimar Republic (includes the events leading to Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany in 1933)
The Reichstag drove the final nails in Weimar's coffin by passing the Enabling Act (Ermächtigungsgesetz) on March 23, 1933, which formally gave Hitler the power to govern by decree and in effect disbanded the remainders of the Weimar constitution altogether.
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 Weimar Culture Encyclopedia Article @ EveryLast.Net (Every Last Net)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It was a bubble culture, sustained for centuries by its political and religious isolation and...
The fourteen years of the Weimar were also marked by explosive intellectual productivity.
During the era of the Weimar Republic, Germany became a center of intellectual thought at its medieval universities, and most notably
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Literature of the Weimar Republic
The literature of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) is, in the words of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, a literature “between two German catastrophes”.
As such the Republic’s literature is noteworthy for its representation of competing political perspectives, its innovative aesthetic practices, and its insight into a society that was struggling to redefine itself in the shadow of the modern age.
In hindsight the enterprise was doomed from the outset: the loss of the war and the destruction it had caused scarred large portions of the populace; the society lacked deep-rooted democratic traditions; the Treaty of Versailles, with its war-guilt clause and harsh conditions, angered a wide spectrum of Germans.
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 Florida Holocaust Museum - Third Reich -
While the politics of the Weimar Republic have generally been seen as a failure that contributed to the rise of National Socialism, the culture of the Weimar Republic was unusually creative and diverse and continues to have an impact on modern culture in the twenty-first century.
During the Weimar years Germany was in the vanguard of developments in the visual arts, architecture, theater, literature and film.
In the months between the end of World War I and the creation of the Weimar Republic, German artists were concerned about the future but saw a place for artists in the new Germany.
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 Facts about Germany: Glossary03_en
On November 9, 1918 Philipp Scheidemann, a Social Democrat, proclaimed the republic.
It was later named after the city of Weimar, where the National Assembly that drew up the constitution convened.
During the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) the German Reich – as the country continued to be called – was a democratic federal state, a mixture of presidential and parliamentary systems.
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 glossary,htm
This is a brief glossary located within my site to help the students identify key terms relating to the Holocaust.
After an uprising in the ghetto, organized by resistance fighters, with headquarters at Mila 18, who held off the might of the German army for twenty days, which ended on May 16, 1943 (and is now annually commemorated by Jews and their friends throughout the western world), the surviving Jews were deported to death camps.
Weimar Republic: German Republic of 1919-1933, a parliamentary democracy established after WW I, with its capital in the city of Weimar.
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 Weimar Republic background (1919-33) garments
The Weimar Republic was a rivch period of culural flowering.
The Weimar Republic was born out of World War I, up to that time, the most destructive war in world history.
The Republic was ineffectual in defeating the putsch, but despite thevthreats of execultion, the Kapp Putsch was defeated through a general strike.
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 Weimar Culture
Politically and economically, the nation struggled with the terms and reparations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles (1918) that ended World War I, and endured punishing levels of inflation.
German artists made significant cultural contributions in the fields of literature, art, architecture, music, dance, drama, and the new medium of the motion picture.
Writers such as Alfred Döblin, Erich Maria Remarque and the brothers Heinrich and Thomas Mann presented a bleak look at the world and the failure of politics and society through literature.
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 Weimar paramilitary groups - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
Paramilitary groups were formed throughout the Weimar Republic in the wake of the Germany's defeat in World War I and the ensuing German Revolution.
The Communists used their groups to seize power in several places in the Weimar Republic at different times forming Räterepubliks.
Between 1928 to 1932, the Weimar Republic experienced a growth of political violence between these organizations called zusammenstösse.
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 WFJCSH: Glossary
Located near Weimar, the cultural capital of 1 8th and 19th century Germany, it was built around the "Goethe Oak," the tree beneath which the great German Enlightenment poet, Wolfgang Goethe, sat and wrote.
Its consti­ tution was drafted in the city of Weimar, the poet Wolfgang Goethe's home and the 18th century cultural capital of Germany.
A democratic republic like the United States, it was burdened with the aftermath of World War I, terrible inflation, violent enemies within like the Nazi Party, and an army that was not committed to defending a democracy.
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 Spanish Glossary -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This is a glossary of some terms used in the branch of mathematics known as topology.
Uniform space All spaces in this glossary are assumed to be topological spaces unless stated otherwise.
It seems that the current glossary is evolving into a "general topology" glossary (i.e.
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 syl101
Thoughout the semester, you will be answering questions on video clips from movies from the Weimar Republic(1919-1933), the classic period of (early) German cinema.
To understand the cultural background of the movies, you will also be assigned readings on the Weimar Republic.
To access the introduction (which has a glossary) click on Weimar Republic.
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 Facts about Germany: 1919–1933: The Weimar Republic > 1919–1933
There was in fact considerable continuity between the German Reich and the Weimar Republic, which emerged following the fall of the monarchy in November 1918 and the January 1919 elections to the German National Assembly, which was to draw up a constitution.
To a certain extent the institution of the monarchy simply persisted in a different form: The office of Reich President, who was elected by the people, came with such powers that there was very quickly talk of a “substitute Emperor” or a “replacement Emperor”.
As a parliamentary democracy the Weimar Republic survived a mere 11 years.
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 Glossary of People: Lo
As a cosmopolitan, social democrat, ex-member of the German Socialization Committee and an architect of the Weimar Republic, Adolph Lowe’s position in Nazi-controlled Germany was quite untenable and he was one of the first to be removed.
Lowenthal was born in Frankfurt in 1900, the son of assimilated Jews (his father was a physician), and he came of age during the turbulent early years of the Weimar Republic.
Awarded the Berkeley Citation and the Federal Republic of Germany's Distinguished Merit Cross in 1985, he also received honorary doctorates from the University of Siegen, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Hamburg.
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 Weimar Era Introduction
One camp of counselors contends that "Weimar Republic" is a revisionist term popularized by historians and journalists trapped in the acrid psychic fallout of World War II's immediate aftermath.
Dr. Bramwell's previously established reputation as a mainstream player in the academic arena of historical ideas, the integrity of her research methods, the cold eye she cast upon Nordicists and anti-semites, and her unapologetic objective rationalism enabled her to survive the reactionary left's intense critical assault on Blood and Soil.
Crowds of Weimar citizens would congregate beneath the balcony of Hitler's room, shouting: 'Dear Fuehrer, come on out, come on out of the Elephant House.' The Nazi leader obliged, to the cheers of his admirers.
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 Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic | Book Reviews | EH.Net
The economic and political fate of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) has always been seen as the prehistory of Hitler's rise to power, and still is seen this way.
The latter issue is related to the former: If the Weimar economy was not ill, Brüning had more economic leeway for work creation programs and the like; and had he made use of it, Hitler possibly would not have been able to seize power in January 1933.
Though very useful, the 'glossary of economic and political terms' will not spare the attentive reader from having to acquire some elementary economic knowledge.
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 Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center / Education / Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Use this glossary to navigate basic terms of Holocaust history and answer geographic and biographic questions.
Chancellor: Chief (prime) minister of Germany, head of the government during the Weimar Republic.
Weimar Republic: Democratic regime in Germany from 1918 to 1933.
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 Australian Memories Of The Holocaust
Humiliating an already defeated nation, the treaty weakened the foundations of the Weimar Republic and polarised German politics into the Communist Left and the Nationalist Right.
Leader of the German military in World War 1, he became President of the Weimar Republic in Germany in the 1920s.
In an atmosphere of economic and political turmoil, Hindenburg eventually used the Weimar constitution to appoint Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
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 ipedia.com: Glossary of the Weimar Republic Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
These are terms, concepts and ideas that are necessary to understanding the Weimar period.
Some are particular to the period and government and others were just in common usage but have a bearing on the Weimar milieu and political manuevering.
Best proclamation — the SA draft proclamation for the exigency when and if the communists would revolt after a Nazi electoral victory; found in the house of Dr. Werner Best, legal advisor to the Nazi Party; became a major embarrassment for Hitler.
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 Glossary
Leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics between 1924 and 1933 who signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact, thus allowing the invasion of Poland.
The troubled republic established in 1919 and ended in 1934 by Hitler when he combined the offices of Chancellor and President.
The Republic had been beleaguered by various problems ever since the end of the war.
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