Word: weimar
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...West must not rub our noses too much in our defeat; it must not impose on us at the end of the 20th century a version of the Treaty of Versailles that caused so much trouble at the beginning. We don't want to feel like Weimar Germany. And you shouldn't want us to." Not even in private will a patriotic Soviet finish that thought: the Weimar Republic gave way to Hitler's Third Reich. Yet that is what some Soviets seem to have in mind. They fear not only the worst from Germany's past but also something...
...world stage until it lost the first World War, after which it was plunged into disorder, depression and despair. As Friedrich Nietzsche anticipated the response: "Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment." Out of the shambles of the well-meaning but ill-fated Weimar Republic surged Hitler and his criminal reign...
After World War I, the "Far West," as the United States was called, began at last to enter the consciousness of "old" European culture. Germans, in particular, began using American products, listening to American music, and watching American movies. Artists active during the Weimar Republic heatedly debated the Americanization of their culture. Their artistic assessments range from the admiring, to the distrustful, to the bitterly critical...
...German conflicts with France ran back for centuries, so did those with the Poles, conflicts tinged with contempt. Long before Hitler, General Hans von Seeckt, the haughty army commander during the Weimar Republic, had said of the frontiers established by Versailles, "Poland's existence is intolerable, incompatible with the essential conditions of Germany's life. Poland must go and will go." That was the mission that Hitler now vowed to carry...
...auspicious. He joined a tiny Bavarian outfit that called itself the German Workers Party. He began making speeches, denouncing Bolsheviks, capitalists, the Jews, the French. Germany had lost the war only because it had been betrayed at home by a "stab in the back." By 1923, as the new Weimar Republic was sinking into deep economic troubles, Hitler staged an absurd "beer-hall putsch" and led a march through Munich. He was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison (he served nine months). "You may pronounce us guilty a thousand times over," he declared at his trial...