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  Choices Program
In Weimar Germany and the Rise of Hitler students have an opportunity to ponder the lessons for democracy from one of the 20th century's most troubling political legacies.
Weimar Germany and the Rise of Hitler asks students to see the world through the eyes of Germans in the Weimar era and to contemplate German political choices in 1932.Students examine the foundations of Western democracy and explore the political culture of Weimar Germany.
Part I reviews Germany's emergence as a major power in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and recounts the country's defeat in World War I. Part II examines the forces that contributed to the polarization of German politics in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
www.choices.edu /curriculum_unit.cfm?id=14   (588 words)

  
  Weimar Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The use of the English word empire and its adjective imperial may be confusing because the Weimar Republic was a republic; empire is an imprecise translation of the German word Reich (which does not have a specific monarchic connotation) and is increasingly translated as commonwealth or realm.
Germany was admitted into the League of Nations, made agreements over her western border, signed a neutrality pact with Russia, and disarmament was brought to a halt.
The fall of the Weimar Republic was closely analysed thirteen years later during the Nuremburg Trials when it was decided that in the case of the aristocratic Catholic Franz von Papen, along with the Rhenish-Westphalian Industrial Magnates, conspiracy to assist Adolf Hitler to power was not an indictable offence.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Weimar_Republic   (5821 words)

  
 Weimar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Weimar is one of the great cultural sites of Europe, since it was the home to such luminaries as Bach, Goethe, Schiller, and Herder.
The period in German history from 1919-1933 is commonly referred to as the Weimar Republic, as the Republic's constitution was drafted here while the capital, Berlin, with its streets rioting after the 1918 revolution, was considered too dangerous for the National Assembly to convene.
Weimar was the center of the Bauhaus movement.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Weimar,_Germany   (534 words)

  
 Weimar Republic - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic (in German "Weimarer Republik").
This first attempt at establishing a liberal democracy in Germany was a time of great tension and inner conflict and, ultimately, failed with the ascent of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in 1933.
There were also fighting in the eastern provinces of Germany, that were loyal to the emperor, but didn't want to be a part of the republic: Great Poland Uprising in Provinz Posen and 3 Silesian Uprisings in Upper Silesia.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /weimar_republic.htm   (4182 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Weimar, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Under Dowager Duchess Amalia (1739–1807) and her son, Charles Augustus (1775–1828), Weimar reached the peak of its fame as a cultural center.
Goethe not only made Weimar the literary capital of Europe during his lifetime, but he also attracted such men as Herder and Schiller, established and directed the Weimar theater, and as chief minister of Charles Augustus was active in the physical improvement of the city.
In 1919, Weimar was the scene of the German national assembly that established the republican government known as the "Weimar Republic." The Bauhaus art school was first established (1919) in Weimar.
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 Weimar Germany and the Rise of the Nazis
The Weimar Republic represented a compromise: German conservatives and industrialists had transferred power to the Social Democrats to avert a possible Bolshevik-style takeover; the Social Democrats, in turn, had allied with demobilized officers of the Imperial Army to suppress the revolution.
A prerequisite for Germany's admission to the League of Nations in 1926, the treaties accepted the demilitarization of the Rhineland and guaranteed the western frontier as defined by the Treaty of Versailles.
Goethe's Weimar was contrasted with the Prussian Germany of authoritarianism, military swagger, and imperialism.
www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/Weimar.html   (4769 words)

  
 Weimar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It is located at 50° 58 min 6 s north / 11° 18 min 6 s east, in the Bundesland of Thuringia (German: Thüringen), close to the to the south, shortly to the northeast of Erfurt, and approximately fifty miles (75 kilometers) southwest of Halle and Leipzig.
The city houses art galleries, museums, the German national theatre, and the.
During World War II, there was a concentration camp near Weimar, at Buchenwald, a little wood that Goethe had loved to frequent.
www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Weimar,_Germany   (441 words)

  
 Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany
Weimar was Germany's belated and ultimately ill-fated attempt at becoming a democracy -- fourteen brief years between the Empire's ignominious end and Hitler's rise to power.
Germany engineered one of the most breathtaking inflations in recorded history between 1919 and 1923.
Germany's distaste for equity is a paradox, given the experience of two great inflations in the last century, and not its logical result.
www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0560.shtml   (2145 words)

  
 A Historiography of the Crisis of Weimar's Modernist Culture
Weimar truly was a magic theatre where men wore masks and explored the bright and shiny corners of the human soul, a fun house with giant mirrors for an examination of the potentialities of modern man. These mirrors of Weimar culture, however, were shattered in 1933 with the rise of Hitler to power.
The avant-garde was not representative of the zeitgeist20of all of Germany.
No longer are the scholar's of Weimar's decisions thought to be based on personal philosophies, but they are thought to be formed by their class allegiance as academics, no different in terms of method from analyzing the actions of an artisan or an industrial worker.
www.lemmingland.com /funhouse.html   (7874 words)

  
 Weimar and Russia Analogy
The first president of the Weimar Republic, the socialist Friederich Ebert, greeted troops back from the front in Berlin at the end of 1918 by saying that he welcomed people undefeated on the battlefield, and out of this came a "stab-in-the-back" theory that poisoned and undermined the political stability of the new republic.
In Weimar Germany, the settlement that was achieved at the end of the German hyperinflation in 1923-24, the settlement that was associated with the Dawes plan, with the flow of foreign money into Germany after the Dawes loan, was not a satisfactory or an adequate solutions to the problem.
Hjalmar Schacht, the man who appeared as the democratic savior of Germany in 1923-1924, the economic wizard of the recovery program, proved in the end, after 1933, to be Hitler's minister of economics who financed German rearmament and the preparations for World War II.
globetrotter.berkeley.edu /pubs/james.html   (1503 words)

  
 Educate Yourself - Weimar Germany
Germany was forced to surrender 13% of its prewar territory.
Germany was also forced to pay for pensions of war victims and some compensation for their families, an unheard of provision.
Germany's new Weimar Republic inherited the vast burden of debt and the crushing weight of reparations.
www.buyandhold.com /bh/en/education/history/2003/germany.html   (1778 words)

  
 Weimar, Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Weimar, named the Cultural Capital of Europe by UNESCO in 1999, is an intimate city whose residents have witnessed virtually every significant movement in German cultural history.
Weimar is the cultural heart of Europe whose citizens can rightly ask: "Who has not come to Weimar?" Indeed, the literati and glitterati of Europe flowed in and out of Weimar.
From Weimar, we are only minutes away from Erfurt, a town whose remarkable ensemble of Renaissance buildings constructed on a bridge is one of Europe's oldest suspended mercantile centers.
www.tourofthearts.com /aboutweimar.htm   (1552 words)

  
 Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Italy with the clenched fist and the sheath of corn, and Germany with the swastika, goosestep and straight-armed salute.
The attempted coup received widespread support, because the Weimar Government was unpopular in 1923 (hyperinflation and the French occupation of the Ruhr valley, January 1923-25).
Germany had been rearming since 1934, but with the outbreak of war conscription and output from munitions (arms) factories increased.
www.rpfuller.com /gcse/history/5.html   (4590 words)

  
 Fall of the Weimar Republic, Germany
From now on Germany ceases to be a parliamentary regime but Presidential regime ruling through the Chancellor appointed by the President.
The Nazis, along with the communists have a blocking majority in the Reichstag and as Hitler breaks his promise to support Papen once again Germany is ruled by emergency decree.
By now Germany is already a Presidential dictatorship in which any attempt to oppose the emergency decrees by the Reichstag will be met by dissolution.
www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk /hist/tyra.html   (905 words)

  
 Germany The Weimar Republic, 1918-33 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
The Weimar Republic, proclaimed on November 9, 1918, was born in the throes of military defeat and social revolution.
The government, composed of members from the assembly, came to be called the Weimar coalition and included the SPD; the German Democratic Party (Deutsche Demokratische Partei--DDP), a descendant of the Progressive Party of the prewar period; and the Center Party.
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.
workmall.com /wfb2001/germany/germany_history_the_weimar_republic_1918_33.html   (422 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Nazi Germany Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Nazi Germany or the Third Reich commonly refers to Germany in the years between 1933 and 1945, when it was under the firm control of Adolf Hitler's dictatorship and the totalitarian ideology of National Socialism (a variant of fascism).
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.
The prosecution of minorities continued both in Germany and the occupied areas, from 1941 Jews were required to wear a yellow star in public and most were transferred to Ghettos, where they remained isolated from the rest of the population.
www.ipedia.com /nazi_germany.html   (2011 words)

  
 Tatar, M.: Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany.
Tatar focuses attention on the politically turbulent Weimar Republic, often viewed as the birthplace of a transgressive avant-garde modernism, where representations of female sexual mutilation abound.
Not only does Tatar show that male artists openly identified with real-life sexual murderers--George Grosz posed as Jack the Ripper in a photograph where his model and future wife was the target of his knife--but she also reveals the ways in which victims were disavowed and erased.
She then considers how the representation of murdered women in visual and literary works functions as a strategy for managing social and sexual anxieties, and shows how violence against women can be linked to the war trauma, to urban pathologies, and to the politics of cultural production and biological reproduction.
press.princeton.edu /titles/5641.html   (633 words)

  
 Hotels in Weimar, Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The 'Elephant' was the social and cultural focus of Weimar at the close of the 17thcentury.
Description: To experience all the classicism of Germany, the Quality Hotel Weimar is ideal to visit the city of Weimar which was in 1999 the European cultural capital.
Weimar underlines Thuringia's reputation for being the land of ducal palaces and castles.
athensohio.net /online-hotel-reservations/Germany/Weimar   (395 words)

  
 Fashion Worlds
A ferment of artistic and sexual experimentation, the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) privileged an outpouring of cultural creativity in the Bauhaus movement of modern art and the development of the International Style in modern architecture.
After the adoption of the Weimar Constitution in 1919, women were guaranteed a new status of equality with men in terms of their enfranchisement and legal and economic standing.
Fashion in Weimar Germany: Fashionable images of the 'New Woman' with short bobbed hair and masculine clothes are rooted in the sociological background of Germany in the 1920s.
fashionworlds.blogspot.com /2000_01_10_fashionworlds_archive.html   (1007 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The object of his inquiry was the new class of salaried employees who populated the cities of Weimar Germany.
The focus of Kracauer's inquiry was the new class of salaried employees who populated the cities of Weimar Germany.
Kracauer's "Salaried Masses", finally translated after seventy years, is a fascinating study of Weimar society, with a particular emphasis on the workforce and the dynamics between employers and workers.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1859841872   (614 words)

  
 Weimar and Nazi Germany
To some historians, the Republic and Weimar Germany was destined to failure from the outset.
Blamed for the defeat of germany during the war and for the crippling terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Weimar Germany, as the Republic is known, was to have an all too short history.
This unit outlines the era of Weimar Germany and the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party.
www.schoolshistory.org.uk /weimar.htm   (137 words)

  
 Nazi Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The die-hard reactionaries believed that Germany was defeated in the First World War not through any lack of military strength but because the Socialists, Catholics, Jews had 'stabbed Germany in the back' by their revolution in 1918.
In 1926, Germany was admitted into the League of Nations with a permanent seat in the Council.
It was intended to make Germany self-sufficient in coal, iron, steel and other basic raw materials and improve the economy by initiating public works and financial aid to industry and agriculture.
www.thecorner.org /hists/total/n-german.htm   (5771 words)

  
 Collapse of the Weimar Republic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The good days of the Weimar Republic came to an end in the late 1920s, especially as the depression began to take a hold on the German economy.
The Weimar Republic appeared to be enjoying its halcyon days, thanks largely to the foreign policy achievements of Gustav Stresemann.
This also was designed to preserve Germany from National Socialism, as Groener and Ebert had tried to maintain the monarchy with Prince Max as regent, in order to save Germany from communism in November 1918.
mars.acnet.wnec.edu /%7Egrempel/courses/germany/lectures/23weimar_collapse.html   (3671 words)

  
 Weimar hotels and accommodation, hotel reservations in Thuringia, by All-Hotels(tm)
Hilton Weimar welcomes you to a first-class location directly opposite the Goethe Park and within walking distance of such...
To experience all the classicism of Germany, the Quality Hotel Weimar is ideal to visit the city of Weimar which was in 1999 the...
The Grand Hotel Russischer Hof is a traditional house of the classicist era of the 19th century.
www.all-hotels.com /europe/germany/thuringia/weimar_e1.htm   (398 words)

  
 Weimar Republic
Problems of the Weimar Republic 1918-24 (political weakness, challenges from the Left and Right, Spartacists, Kapp Putsch, Munich Putsch, invasion of the Ruhr and hyperinflation).
Germany 1919-39: simple overview specifically aimed at the AQA GCSE, plus a large number of more detailed notes on specific topics - excellent.
Gidz.co.uk: exceptionally detailed notes on Weimar Germany, the Nazi State and Life in Hitler's Germany aimed at AS/A level students.
www.johndclare.net /Weimar1.htm   (421 words)

  
 HUM199Y-Weimar
The renaissance of Jewish culture in Weimar Germany.
From recovery to catastrophe: municipal stabilization and political crisis in Weimar, Germany.
International Studies in Media: Media Culture in Germany, 1919-1945 (William Uricchio, MIT) "From the rampant inflation of the early Weimar years, to the media-based mobilization of mass consensus, to the systematic atrocities of the Nazi death machine, Germany suffered the ravages of modernity to an extent unparalleled in other national contexts.
www.utoronto.ca /innis/library/weimar.html   (811 words)

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