Weimar Germany after World War One went through one of the worst hyperinflations in history, unleashing untold horrors on the German people and their economy. To this day, "Weimar" is always invoked ...

Jazz flowed freely through the nightclubs of Weimar Germany. It's what people danced to, drank to, and partied to. But it wasn't, exactly, what we'd call jazz today, or even jazz as we understand it ...

Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany” and Frank McDonough’s “The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933” examine the era through different lenses. But both emphasize Germany’s ...

To celebrate the tercentenary of the birth of Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68), the first scholar systematically to write art history as a succession of styles, the Neues Museum in Weimar, Germany ...