Germany is one of the most influential nations in Europe, which has a complex political system that includes both a president and a chancellor. The president of Germany serves as the head of state, ...

Hitler had joined one of the many small right wing political groups in Munich, the German Workers’ Party, in September 1919. Germany was a country in considerable turmoil and there were many such ...

“The rank and file conceive government only as something to be fought. Their own champions become objects of suspicion when they don the robes of state.” The German revolution was long preparing, and, ...

In 1919, German women voted for the first time — in an election that was to play a pivotal role in the country's history. It came on the heels of the disastrous Great War and the year before Hitler ...

Born from the defeat of World War One, the new German government, the Weimar Republic, faced a series of challenges economically, politically, socially and internationally. What challenges were faced ...

Two separate events in Europe, the Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 followed the next year by the collapse of Germany helped to create a political vacuum. It is in this context that Haffner ...

VERSAILLES, June 28, 1919 (UP) - The greatest war in history formally ended today with the signing of the Peace Treaty. The ceremony took place in the historic palace of Versailles, proceeding with ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: It remains the greatest destruction of naval power in a single day in modern military history. A little over one hundred years ago, the German High Seas Fleet committed ...

World War I ended over the weekend. Germany made its final reparations-related payment for the Great War on Oct. 3, nearly 92 years after the country’s defeat by the Allies. That’s not to say that ...

Interwar Germany is a historical moment we all feel we know, with its rampant inflation, unbridled sleaze and the rise of Hitler. Thanks not least to the musical Cabaret, the novels of Christopher ...

Germany, as is well known now, had a hyperinflation from 1919 to 1923. At the end, the mark was worth one trillionth of its original value. Afterwards, the new German mark was pegged to gold, at its ...

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