Word: weimar
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...more skeptical readers of the CRIMSON" be relieved of their doubts, he suggests that the NSL study the German situation on the spot for four years. Inasmuch as we have only one member who has spent more than two years in Germany during the last year of the Weimar Republic and the first year of Hitlerism, and we cannot afford the four years abroad he generously recommends, we have been forced to eke out our experience of twenty-seven months in Germany with the study of books, newspapers, and periodicals...
...Secondly," Dr. Kotschnig pointed out, "the Weimar Constitution was as nearly perfect as any outline of government has ever been, but it was utterly unfitted to the German nation. The idea of democracy never caught the German imagination...
...same men who made the Versailles Treaty made the Weimar Constitution, and in the minds of the German people the two are inseparably connected...
Germany, also, is besieged with problems of constitutionality, although theirs, thanks to the flexibility of Weimar, will be of a different kind. The disposition of a badly unreprosented minority is not so simple as Mr. Ludwig, fresh from Naziland, would have us believe. For him the word majority is a magic philtre, and he cannot say that the Nazis are unable to brew it; thus, although they have burned his books and routed him out, his cavil is not a constitutional one. Castor calls this another example of the megalomania which Mr. Ludwig's essay on Mussolini the strange...
Albert Leo Schlageter was a German officer who did not stop fighting when the. War ended. Enraged at the Weimar Republicans, who to his mind were accepting the Versailles Treaty lying down. Albert Schlageter joined a guerrilla band known as the Baltikum troops. When these disbanded he moved to Dusseldorf. In 1923 when the French began to exploit the Ruhr coal mines for German failure to meet Reparations payments. Albert Leo Schlageter and his friends went to work. Railroad bridges were bombed, canal locks smashed, dams destroyed-the French got little benefit from their seized coal. On May 8 Schlageter...