Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany” and Frank McDonough’s “The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933” examine the era through different lenses. But both emphasize Germany’s ...

In the early 1920s, the value of the papiermark (the native currency of the Weimar Republic of Germany) lost almost all of its purchasing power, causing tremendous instability within Weimar for many ...

WEIMAR, Thuringia, Germany — Walking through Weimar, Germany, the legacy of the Holocaust seems inescapable. Stolpersteine — German for “stumbling blocks” — are placed outside the homes of people ...

What accounts for the intermittent but enduring appeal of the Comedian Harmonists, a male sextet that thrived in Weimar Germany? Largely forgotten until the 1970s, the group has spawned tribute bands, ...

SS Bremen, the ocean liner launched in 1928, was one of the most beautiful passenger ships of the golden age of liners. She was a product of the Weimar Republic, the short-lived democratic society ...

There’s a scene in Christopher Isherwood’s novel Goodbye to Berlin where the author goes to visit Bernhard Landauer, the owner of a prosperous department store in Germany. The year is 1933 and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patrons at the Eldorado, a popular LGBTQ cabaret in Berlin during the Weimar years. Herbert Hoffmann/ullstein bild via Getty ...