Are we about to repeat the fatal mistake of the Weimar Republic?
Flooding the market with new work is like debasing the coinage, a strategy used from Nero to the Weimar Republic with disastrous consequences.
Pupils are far more likely to study the Weimar Republic, the Russian Revolution, or the politics (but not social history) of the Tudors.
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According to Steinlight, this means French anti-Semitic violence is approaching the level of anti-Semitic violence in Germany during the days of the Weimar Republic.
The mark briefly outlived the fall of the German Empire and the foundation of the Weimar Republic in 1918, but was ruined by the inflation of the early 1920s.
The Germans abhor inflation thanks to their historical run-in with hyper-inflation from 1921 to 1924, a catastrophe so severe that by its finish, the Weimar Republic was forced to issue one trillion mark notes.
But the Germans, for the moment, will not allow the bank to play that role because they fear a repeat of history - the inflation of the Weimar Republic and all that flowed from it.
That hardly sounds like the Weimar Republic.
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Gropius may have agreed: He ensured that the Bauhaus trademark would survive the Weimar Republic by brokering a New Bauhaus in Chicago, run by one of his ex-Bauhaus colleagues, and by promoting the defunct original while head of the Harvard architecture department.
Berlin's creative boom rivals even the smoky jazz club and flirty-flapper cabaret heyday of the early 1920s Weimar Republic.
Exit polls suggest that a major reason for the much worse than expected performance of the SPD (22%) in its area of dominance during the pre-World War II Weimar Republic is that it proposed a much slower process of reunification while the CDU-led Alliance and the Free Democrats (with 53% of the vote) agreed with Kohl on a rapid process of reunification.
The Austrian program was a model for later programs in Hungary, Bulgaria and, yes, Greece, and was used as a "background model" for dealing with the crisis in Germany's Weimar Republic, she told an audience at St.
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In 1925, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg became the second president of Germany's postwar Weimar Republic.
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