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Weimar Republic: see Germany Germany (jûr`mənē), Ger. Deutschland, officially Federal Republic of Germany, republic (2005 est. pop. ..... Click the link for more information. . Weimar RepublicGovernment of Germany 1919–33, so named because the assembly that adopted its constitution met at Weimar in 1919. In its early years, the Weimar Republic was troubled by postwar economic and financial problems and political instability, but it had recovered considerably by the late 1920s. Its major political leaders included presidents Friedrich Ebert (1919–25) and Paul von Hindenburg (1925–34), as well as Gustav Stresemann, who was chancellor (1923) and foreign minister (1923–29). With the Great Depression, its political and economic collapse enabled Adolf Hitler to rise to power and become chancellor (1933), after which he suspended the Weimar constitution. |
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An important example of this avoidance of theology is seen in Strauss's posthumously published 1941 lecture on the German nihilism of the Weimar period. A cult of health and beauty swept across Germany around the turn of the twentieth century and lingered on well into the Weimar period. He began making socially conscious and sexually frank silent movies during the Weimar period, adjusting to sound with the aplomb of Fritz Lang. |
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