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The Weimar Republic: Germany's Fragile Democracy
After the collapse of the German Empire in 1918, a new democratic experiment was born: the Weimar Republic. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the republic's turbulent birth, from the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Spartacist uprising to the drafting of its groundbreaking constitution. They discuss the contentious Treaty of Versailles and the war guilt clause, the hyperinflation crisis of 1923, and the cultural golden age that flourished in the mid-1920s—the Bauhaus movement, the films of Fritz Lang, and the cabarets of Berlin. But beneath the surface, the republic faced…
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