Word: weimar
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...feudal enclaves where the Hessians. Thuringians and Bavarians fought among themselves but mostly against the Prussians. Under Bismarck the Prussians won, and the Iron Chancellor set up the German Reich that lasted until the defeat in World War I. Germany's first real experiment with democracy was the Weimar Republic of the 1920s. But despite the efforts of men of vision like Friedrich Ebert and Gustav Stresemann. German democracy was splintered from the start by regionalism, factionalism, and, above all, by a rain-forest proliferation of political parties. Then came Hitler...
...echelons, the number of former Socialists jailed or killed could only be estimated, but it amounted to thousands. Socialists had been removed from all positions of importance in East Germany. Communist in all but name were Grotewohl, now the jowly Premier of East Germany, and Ebert (son of the Weimar Republic's first President), now the alcoholic mayor of East Berlin. Far from being embarrassed by the fact that so many of his old Socialist comrades were in prison, Grotewohl maneuvered to make capital out of them. He offered an "amnesty" for imprisoned Socialists as a means of "reaching...
...there have been only the Weimar and Erlangen editions in German and Latin, the St. Louis edition in German, and the Philadelphia edition in English, which covers only a fraction of the material...
Died. Dr. Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron, 71, onetime (1927-33) German Ambassador to the U.S. under the Weimar Republic, one of the founders of Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party; of arthritis; in Munich...
...moved into Germany in the 18th century, where they established deep cultural ties. Famed 19th century Brentanos: Bettina. friend of Goethe; Poet Clemens (The Lorelei}; Philosopher Franz; Economist Lujo; democratic Revolutionary Lorenz. Otto von Brentano. the new Minister's father, was a lawyer and statesman of the Weimar Republic; brother Clemens is now German Ambassador to Italy; onetime fellow-traveling Novelist Bernard von Brentano is another brother...