A collection of Weimar Republic documents, selected and compiled by Alpha History authors.

The Treaty of Versailles left Germany in ruins, politically and economically, setting the stage for Hitler's rise to power.

The Weimar Republic was one of Germany’s most turbulent and unstable governments.

100 years ago, prices in Germany were soaring by 50% each month, a loaf of bread cost millions of mark. How did the young republic rein in inflation?

The Weimar Republic was Germany’s unstable government from 1919 to 1933, an economically chaotic period after World War I until the rise of Nazi Germany.

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The signing of the Treaty of Versailles formally concluded the First World War, and in doing so arguably paved the way for the Second. Indeed it has...

The First World War came to an ignominious end for Imperial Germany.

Germany emerged from the First World War broken and disillusioned.