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Weimar Republic: doomed from the start?

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Ken

There is no such thing in history as inevitability.  Just because an event happened in the past does not mean that it was bound to happen.  History is full of imponderables and the “what if? world of counter history” makes … Continue reading →

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President Ebert and the early problems of the Weimar Republic

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Ken

The first president of the Weimar Republic was the Social Democrat, Friedrich Ebert.  During Bismarckian times in the late 19th Century, the German Social Democrat Party (SPD) had revolutionary pretensions.  By Ebert’s time these had disappeared.  Following the abdication of … Continue reading →

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