Adolf Hitler was a master of manufacturing public-security crises to advance his authoritarian agenda. He used inflammatory ...

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 ...

Richard Scully, 'Hindenburg: The Cartoon Titan of the Weimar Republic, 1918-1934' (German Studies Review, 35/3, 2012) Colin Storer, A Short History of the Weimar Republic (Revised Edition ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum also notes that "Only after World War II did authorities of the German Federal Republic dedicate a plaque memorializing the four police officers killed on ...

Old Paul von Hindenburg and “Iron Cross” Briining decided that it did. With a Presidential decree invoking Article 48 in his pocket, the Chancellor faced the Reichstag for a showdown on Budget ...

Harald Jähner’s new history of the Weimar era vividly portrays and endorses this spirit of excess. Its very title, “Vertigo,” fittingly conjures the sensation of spinning dizziness.(It’s ...

For the last half-decade or so, the last thing any CEO wanted to was to see their company’s name in print alongside Hindenburg Research. If the firm had you in its crosshairs, things were about ...

Hindenburg accepted Hitler's new power, ... and appeasement by those around him helped Hitler demolish the democracy of the Weimar Republic in only 53 days.

Hindenburg added that he also had no intention of “inserting Reich Governors into the business of state governments.” Still, rumors of Hitler’s designs on Bavaria’s sovereign authority ...