“New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933,” opened Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It’s a tough show. Tough as nails. You will clench your jaw as the 14 ...

‘Les Irresponsibles’, the new book by Nazism expert Johann Chapoutot, brilliantly recounts the end of the Weimar Republic, highlighting the parallels with the present day ...

After the German Empire lost the First World War and the Kaiser abdicated, the newly established Weimar Republic lingered in an incredibly unstable and chaotic situation. Both the far left and far ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. For centuries Germans were a people in search of a state. Although the tribes roaming the north-central reaches of Europe ...

The end of World War I in 1918 brought radical change to a defeated, disillusioned Germany. The entire population had experienced hunger, death, and violence. In October of that year, as the Americans ...

Thuringia lies at the geographic heart of Germany. It is where Bach was born, where Goethe wrote Faust, where Martin Luther was ordained as a monk. Germany’s first democratic constitution was adopted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Destitute Germans on the streets of Berlin, 1919 - Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images If you want to know where our ...

Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party tend to blot out everything else in 20th-century German history. But before Hitler made Berlin a capitol of tyranny and death, there was a decade and more of democracy ...