On Feb. 26, 1933, The New York Times profiled the political leader likely to dominate Germany moving forward. It’s not who you think. It was Alfred Hugenberg whom Emil Lengyel, a journalist and social ...

“Nothing is more exotic than what surrounds us, nothing is more imaginative than objectivity,” said the Austrian-Czech writer Egon Erwin Kisch in 1925. Kisch is among the dozens of writers, painters, ...

What happens when a nation that was once an economic powerhouse turns its back on democracy and on its middle class, as wealthy right-wingers wage austerity campaigns and enable extremist politics? It ...

Opponents of European Central Bank intervention to bail out the eurozone consistently cite Germany's experiences with hyperinflation in the early 1920s as a reason that the bank can not or should not ...

Editor: The dynamics of the current presidential race are starting to remind me of Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. Political dysfunction, inflation, and a sharply divided electorate bedeviled the ...

At the center of Carnegie Hall’s announcement of its 2023-24 season is “Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice,” a festival stretched over five months devoted to the beautiful and ...

Don’t go searching for Berlin’s newest museum among the imposing neoclassical monuments of Museum Island. You would be looking in entirely the wrong place. Dedicated to the works of George Grosz, the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Berlin in the late 1920s was a dynamic, fast-paced city with a remarkably seedy underbelly. As the ...