The progressive but flawed document was a "turning point in German history." While it enshrined many human rights, its shortcomings aided Hitler's rise to power. The German government marked the ...

On 14 August 1919, Germany’s first democratic constitution came into force. The Constitution of the German Reich, soon known as Weimar Constitution marked the end of the German Empire and introduced a ...

Germany's far-right populists are on the rise, as are random, violent street killings. People are dizzy with the potential – and danger – of new mass media. And, all over Berlin, posters have gone up ...

If it’s an election year it must be time to revisit the tragic fate of the short-lived Weimar Republic. Critics of the Republican presidential convention's allegedly "dark" tone see even more reason ...

Justice Minister Wijayadasa Rajapakshe told Parliament on Tuesday that the Supreme Court’s suspension of a section of the Constitution was like Adolf Hitler suspending the operation of civil rights ...

In his column, economist Thomas Piketty takes us through the German left's attempt to redistribute the wealth of the ruling family, 100 years ago. Just over a century ago, in the spring of 1924, the ...