Probably no German would admit today that Germany can ever pay any such amount as the German experts estimated as reasonable in Paris in 1919. The difficulty arising from the fact that there is no ...

Adolf Hitler made his first attempt to overthrow democracy in Germany in Munich in 1923. It started at a beer hall called the Bürgerbräu in Munich, so it has become known as the "beer hall ...

The Nazi party used radios to spread its message to new followers, especially pushing the argument that Germany had been wronged by the Treaty of Versailles.

IT IS not easy to discuss Austria's present relations with Germany on the one hand and with Italy on the other. Everyone in a responsible position here in Austria avoids touching publicly on our ...

Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler’s Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis Volker Ullrich, trans. from the German by Jefferson Chase. Liveright, $35 (448p) ISBN 978-1-324-09346-6 ...

A century after Otto Dix’s First World War painting The Trench (1923) provoked an outcry when it was displayed at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, the institution's successor, the Germany ...

His book, “1923”, is a gripping narrative of the extraordinary year in which Weimar Germany was struck by successive blows, though it somehow survived for another ten years.

Exactly a century ago, Germany was on the edge of the precipice, muddling through a year that could easily be classified as annus horribilis. Still struggling from its ignominious defeat in World ...

Henry Kissinger, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former US secretary of state, has died. The controversial politician wasn't only the United States' most famous top diplomat, he was also the only ...

In his latest book, the German historian Volker Ullrich describes a nation buffeted by poverty, hyperinflation and political extremism, but managing — for the moment — to thwart Hitler’s ascent.