Revolutions
Wrapping My Head Around the Weimar Republic, Pt. 5: When Putsch Comes to Shove*
Armed uprisings against the Weimar Republic came from the far right as well as the far left. They often claimed to support “tradition”—a call to Protestantism, family values, or loyalty to the monarchy—but what they had in common was a deep hatred for democracy and a call for an authoritarian alternative to the Weimar Republic.…
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Wrapping My Head Around the Weimar Republic, Pt. 4: The Sparticist Uprising.
The Weimar Republic almost died soon after it began. Conditions were bad in Germany during the first months of the Weimar Republic. Food and fuel shortages continued after the end of the war and many Germans were cold and starving. The economy was in disarray. Unemployment was high, as both the army and the industries…
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Wrapping My Head Around the Weimar Republic, Pt 2: Born in Revolution
As I mentioned in a previous post, I went into my newest project a year ago with an astonishing degree of ignorance about the Weimar Republic. As I got into the reading, I was both shocked and embarrassed about how little I knew. And one of the things I didn’t know was how the Weimar…
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