Sarah Zama's Blog, page 44
April 14, 2018
Memory (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
Life in the Weimar Republic, and more prominently in Berlin, seemed to be fast moving toward the future. Avant-garde movements of every kinds were almost the norm. Social mores were evolving towards equality (between men...
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April 13, 2018
Left (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
When we think about the Weimar Republic most likely we think about the time of the right-wing power. Certainly it’s true that many authoritarian forces were at work in the republic, but this was also...
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April 11, 2018
Kulturbolschewismus (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
The Weimar Republic is often considered one of the most remarkably energetic periods in the artistic history of humanity, a roaring surge of modernism in all fields of arts, where experimentation was the norm. For...
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April 10, 2018
Jews (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
The Weimar Republic relation with Jews was contradictory at best. On the one hand, the republic was a first time of full citizenship for the German Jewish people, who became a driving force in the...
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April 9, 2018
Inter-War Years (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
In the first half of the XX century two world wars ravaged Europe. The fact that two horrible conflicts on a world scale were crammed into such a short time has always blown my mind....
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April 8, 2018
Hyperinflation (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
When we hear about the Weimar Republic, most of us think to wheelbarrows of banknotes used to buy one loaf of bread or stakes of banknotes used to fuel stoves. In short we think to...
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April 6, 2018
Great War (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
It is normally quite easy to understand why a war breaks out and who is pitted against who. Not so for the Great War. And this is true to the point that it has been...
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April 5, 2018
Führerprinzip (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
It would be misleading to think that Germany was the only nation where authoritarian ideologies became popular after WWI. In fact, all European nations let themselves be fascinated with this kind of ideologies, spurred by...
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April 4, 2018
Expressionism (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
It is often argued that it’s easier to say what Expressionism was not, rather than to say what it was. Diverse and eclectic, this movement stressed deconstruction rather than building, individuality rather than the communion...
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April 3, 2018
Democracy (Weimar Germany #AtoZChallenge)
Germany had been a Keiserriach – an Empire – for over fifty years, and in this time many rights had been extended to a larger population. It could be said that democracy had advanced, although...
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