The Germans realised that they were fighting a battle they had already lost, the First World War ended on 11th November 1918. The fate of Germany was left in the hands of France, Britain and the USA...
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`Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Naz...
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The fall of the Weimar Republic and democratic government in Germany occurred for a variety of reasons. Historians like Kurt Sontheimer have blamed the people of Germany for not wanting a democratic g...
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I think the Weimar Republic was lucky to survive this far. It suffered some huge economic and financial crises, and I would have thought that it would have lost all the faith it had from its people. T...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s is an exhibition that submerges pleasure beneath the burden of history. It’s a dark and sometimes tryi...
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Berlin (dpa) - Germans have drawn clear lessons relevant to today
from the events of 75 years ago that brought Adolf Hitler to power, a
prominent German historian said Thurs...
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In early 1981, shortly before Rupert Murdoch completed his purchase of London’s prominent money-loser, The Times (and its profitab le Sunday Times), there was panic in the newsroom.
The bud...
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Walter Cronkite, when asked whether he agreed that liberals dominated the major news media, told me, "Yes — if by liberal you mean open-minded."Are liberals more "open-minded" than conservati...
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The oil portrait "Girl from the Sabine Mountains" shows a peasant woman reclining, closing her eyes and stretching her billowing white sleeves behind her dark hair.The serenity of the figure belies...
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The oil portrait "Girl from the Sabine Mountains" shows a peasant woman reclining, closing her eyes and stretching her billowing white sleeves behind her dark hair.The serenity of the figure belies...
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The State of Germany Post-World War I
All That Glitters Isn\'d5t Gold: Weimar Visages Laid Bare
