the.com/weimar republic
germany's brief, brilliant, doomed experiment in democracy, sandwiched between two catastrophes.
means the german government from 1919 to 1933, a fragile parliamentary democracy born from military defeat and killed by the nazis.
from named for weimar, the small town where the new constitution was drafted in 1919 because berlin was too unstable and revolutionary to host the convention.
hyperinflation peakone dollar bought 4.2 trillion marks in 1923
electoral systempure proportional representation let tiny extremist parties thrive
cultural outputbauhaus, metropolis, and cabaret all bloomed here
lifespanlasted just 14 years before hitler ended it
for instance
beer hall putsch — hitler's failed 1923 munich coup, later his springboard to power
bauhaus school — founded 1919 in weimar, reshaped modern design worldwide
enabling act 1933 — the law that legally dissolved the republic itself
treaty of versailles — the 1919 debt burden that crushed the new government from birth