Cosmopolitan, hedonistic, gay-friendly, bohemien, urban, literary and decadent are the words that recur when describing the pre-Nazi wonderland of Weimar, Germany’s experiment with democracy between ...

Thought Liza Minnelli in Cabaret was the peak of Weimar decadence? Think again. A pungent new exhibition reveals a world of chaos, corsets and bloodstained crosses that the Nazis were about to sweep ...

When the Nazi troops walked in the boulevards of Paris, in 1940, it was a shock, but there was also an atmosphere of inevitability, surrender and submission. The Islamic terrorists were “invited” by a ...

The life and death of Anita Berber (1899-1928), who was what we would now call a performance artist, are inseparable from the frantically erotic climate of Weimar Germany, as this tabloid-style ...