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Weimar Republic By Peterson, Paul Silas

DOI: 10.4324/9781135000356-REM1380-1
Published: 02/05/2017
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The Weimar Republic (1918/1919–1933) is a term used to describe the German Reich (Deutsches Reich) after the end of World War I and after the dissolution of the German monarchy up to 1933 with the establishment of Nazi Germany. It refers first to the new federal state, constitutional government and parliamentary democracy that initially convened in Weimar. The term also refers to a cultural period of German history associated with the Golden Twenties, Expressionism and the rise of mass culture. It can be divided into three periods: 1919–1923, the founding of the Republic and internal struggle; 1924–1929, the phase of relative stability; and 1930–1933, the phase of economic and political crisis.

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Peterson, Paul Silas. Weimar Republic. Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/weimar-republic.

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