Sarah Zama's Blog, page 43
April 25, 2018
Women (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
In the 1920s, the role of women in society shifted dramatically. Women liberated themselves. They started working outside the house, engaging in activities previously reserved to men, they discovered their sexuality and sensuality and uncovered...
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April 24, 2018
Veterans (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
Veterans were a strong public presence in the Weimar Republic. A total of 1.4 million disabled veterans came back from war and the republic provided them occupational training, free medical care and pensions. For the...
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April 23, 2018
Unity (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
One of the most speculated matters in the history of the Weimar Republic is whether it would have weathered the hard crises of the Great Depression, and so resist the rise of the Nazi, if...
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April 22, 2018
Treaty of Versailles (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
It is sometimes said that just like WWI was the war to end all wars, the Treaty of Versailles was the peace to end all peace. Often described as punitive to Germany, who was cast...
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April 21, 2018
SPD – Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschland (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
The Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschland (Social Democratic Party of Germany) was founded in 1875 by August Bebel on largely Marxist ideals and for most of the Weimar Republic time was the largest political party in the...
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April 20, 2018
Reichswehr (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
The Reichswehr, the German republican army, was always a state in the state and never a supporter of the democratic regime of the Weimar Republic. When Germany signed the Armistice, her military force was virtually...
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April 19, 2018
Queer Culture (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
Berlin has been a queer-friendly city for well over a hundred year – but for the Nazi period, of course. The history of how the city became a safe haven for queer people started back...
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April 17, 2018
Post-War Society (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
Over the whole XIX century, the Western World in its entirety had been moving in the same direction: away from the countryside into the cities, away from a rural lifestyle into industrialization and generally into...
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Occultism (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
Occultism and spiritualism weren’t new on the scene of European society. They had been very popular in the Victorian times and when WWI broke out, people again turned to these practices and belief in search...
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April 15, 2018
NSDAP – Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
Because of its prominence in the European history of the XX century, it’s tempting to consider the Nazionalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeitpartei (German National Socialist Workers Party) more powerful then all the other right-wing movements of its...
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