Word: weimar
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...take any U.S. antagonism to shift West Germany to the Soviet Union, he said. Bismark turned to Russia, the Weimar Republic turned to Russia, and Hitler turned to Russia. For this reason he suggested that an economically strong and rearmed West Germany might well "make a deal" with the Communist sphere...
Postwar treatment of Germany by the Allies not only crippled the Weimar Republic and laid the basis for Hitler's rise, but also prepared the way for the Nazi-Soviet Pact. The West could not afford to treat two Great Powers as outcasts, Kennan says...
BRATTLE: Brecht and Weill's movie version of THE THREEPENNY OPERA dates from the latter days of the Weimar republic. Like much German expressionist film-making it is bitter and unhappy; it lacks much of Music and effervescence of the original...
...jump ahead of the secret police. The rest of Lasik's nonstop global pratfall is something of an anticlimax-but not to Lasik himself. In Germany he is delighted to find that "everyone around him spoke Yiddish, though in a slightly imperfect way." In his lunatic vision, the Weimar Republic becomes a memorable cartoon-rather as if George Grosz had been a Disney animator. On a diet of zwieback, Lasik sits in a druggist's window advertising the shocking effects of not drinking cod liver oil; later he understudies for a circus monkey. Small wonder that when...
...Germany to manufacture atomic, bacteriological or chemical weapons, applies only to "the territory of the Federal Republic," the London Times unhappily noted: "Indeed, the West Germans could if they wished manufacture rockets and atomic warheads in Spain." Others were quick to remember the 1920s, when Germany's democratic Weimar Republic secretly accepted a Soviet offer to let Germans train with illegal weapons at Russian bases...