Alpha History’s Weimar Republic website contains a number of topic pages, containing detailed but concise summaries of important events and concepts. These topic pages have been written by Alpha History authors
Introduction to the Weimar Republic
The old order
Imperial Germany
World War I
Germany in late 1918
Reform and revolution
The Kiel Mutiny
Ebert and the new Republic
The German Revolution
The Spartacist uprising
The German Soviet republics
The Weimar constitution
Political instability
The Weimar Reichstag
The Social Democratic Party (SPD)
Communist parties (KPD and USPD)
The Centre Party
The National Socialists (NSDAP)
Other Weimar political parties
The years of disaster
The Treaty of Versailles
War reparations
The Ruhr occupation
The 1923 hyperinflation
The Munich putsch
The years of recovery
The Stresemann years
Weimar foreign relations
Society and culture
Weimar cinema
Weimar art
Weimar cabaret
From depression to dictatorship
The rise of the NSDAP
The Great Depression in Germany
From Weimar democracy to Nazi dictatorship
Conclusion
Why the Weimar Republic failed
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