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 ...

Weimar Berlin's depraved, ... Whether or not Berlin’s unique brand of decadence was “in the air,” there apparently was the feeling in Weimar culture that anything goes.

“When you mention the Weimar Republic, what do most people think of? The movie Cabaret,” said Smith, referring to the highly ...

Combining the study of film, history, social movements, psychopathology and art, ‘Weimar Film and Culture’ presents a portrait of Germany at its moment of greatest cultural crisis: between WWI and ...

Nazi leadership initially tolerated the occultists, psychics, and mediums who thrived in Weimar Germany’s volatile atmosphere ...

During the Weimar Republic, an art movement that looked at the nation with a cool eye developed in Germany. Labeled Neue Sachlichkeit-- new objectivity -- it reflected the resignation and cynicism ...

Paul D. Miller: A Confessing Church for America’s Weimar Moment (Dispatch Illustration by Simone Altamura) Most American Christians know the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor who ...

Over the past few weeks, this reviewer has been on a binge, tele-drunk on “Babylon Berlin,” the noirish Weimar-era dramatic series abruptly abandoned by Netflix after three seasons, despite ...

More than one commentator has compared the sense of crisis and fear that pervades America’s fragmented political culture to the situation in Weimar Germany in the years before that democratic ...

Any account of Germany’s economically embattled, politically fractured and culturally avant-garde Weimar Republic is haunted by the same, insistent question: How could Weimar fail and Hitler ...