the new constitution was eventually approved and signed in August 1919. This government eventually became known as the ‘Weimar Republic’.

After Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933, he promptly packed the government full of loyalists and used Weimar Germany's constitution to turn himself into an absolute dictator.

Robert Kaplan is one of our nation’s best geopolitical thinkers. He has the remarkable ability to explain contemporary world ...

A more subtle form of this labeling comes in the form of comparing our current situation to that of the Weimar Republic — Germany’s first attempt to create a constitutional democratic republic ...

There is far more to 1919-1939 Germany than it simply being a prelude to Hitler’s rise to power. As financial ruin, military ...

Hence, it became known as the Weimar Republic. Parliament was elected ... Article 48 of the Constitution was also problematic. It was stated that in an emergency, the President could take control ...

Each week in the coming months, we will present their findings and arguments to you as we rediscover the Constitution.

After all, the two schools couldn’t be more different: The Bauhaus was an experimental art school established in the same city and year as the constitution of the Weimar Republic and inspired by the ...

This practice began early in the republic. Elbridge Gerry, one of the signers of the Constitution, created such an oddly-shaped district in his Massachusetts region that it was dubbed a ...