The country adopted a constitution in May, 1949, to establish the Federal Republic of Germany.The new republic was similar in structure to the Weimar Republic, except that the individual states had somewhat more power, and the president's powers were much reduced. In the first elections (Aug....
The Wiki entryHyperinflation in the Weimar Republic, mentioned above, describes the end quite well. Key was the introduction of a new currency, the “Rentenmark”, whose value was backed by bonds that were indexed to the price of gold. This monetary reform took place towards the end of 192...
that were Germany's traditional form of ‘body culture', had political ramifications that persisted throughout Germany's late nineteenth century modernisation and into the 1920s, when the old Wilhelminian regime was brushed aside and a new democratic and republican system, the Weimar Republic, was...
The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic. NY: Henry Holt and Company, 2018. (Open in a new window)Google Scholar Hibbing, John. The Securitarian Personality: What Really Motivates Trump’s Base and Why It Matters for the Post-Trump Era....
The remarkable influence of Jews in science came to be of major importance when Hitler at the end of January 1933 took over as Reichskanzler and made the Weimar Republic a part of history. A critical drive in this major political shift was anti-Semitism. Because of the overrepresentation of...
Zimbabwe and the Weimar Republic (hyperinflation) being the most common examples; most arguments do not lay out the conditions under which these examples apply (see J.Montier). Arguments citing the sudden loss of “confidence” leading to runaway inflation can be safely ignored, considering the ...
How much closer can we get until what happened to Germany’s Weimar Republic also happens to us? So far, both of the major American parties have usually felt compelled to pretend, if nothing else, that they support and defend democracy. But what happens when we lose even the illusion of ...
Let me illustrate what I am trying to say by an example which I happen to know well. When Gustav Stresemann, the Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic, died in 1929, he left behind him an enormous mass - 300 boxes full - of papers, official, semiofficial, and private, nearly all re...
There are many similarities of current day American politics to the final years of the Weimar Republic of the early 20th century: a bureaucratic plutocracy governed by out of touch liberal capitalists, incapable of understanding, let alone meeting, the needs of ordinary working people, in a natio...
1919-1933: thEwEimar rEPuBlic and thEmass PrEss117Hamburg at the time of Baschwitz’s returnWith the end of the war and the empire, Baschwitz was recalled from Rot-terdam to Hamburg in late January of 1919. As a foreign correspondent, he had worked alone. He returned to the editorial st...