The Old Shelter

Founded in the 1870s to protect the Catholic minority, the Zentrum was part of the government coalition for most of the history of the Weimar Republic, but was never a true supporter.

There’s no doubt that the generation of Weimar was formed by WWI. The young people who fought in the trenches thought their elders, their parents, their fathers and mothers, could not understand what that meant.

A symbol of good luck and well-being for thousends of years, in the XX century in Europe the swastika took up a completely new meaning

In the 1920s, German women embraced the freedom women were exploring in the Western World. Maybe more, and for this they were often considered unpatriotic

One of the most speculated matters in the history of the Weimar Republic is whether it would have weathered the hard crises of the Great Depression, and so resist the rise of the Nazi, if all forces had been more united. Disunity – both true and perceived – was indeed a characteristic of the Weimar…

In spite of the perceived failure of the Weimar Republic, the SPD – which is identified with it – actually achieved many liberal laws and provisions that meant inclusion for a lot of society sections previously cut off form Germany’s political life.

Over the whole XIX century, the Western World in its entirety had been moving in the same direction: away from the countryside into the cities, away from a rural lifestyle into industrialization and generally into a more inclusive, if maybe more lonely society. Germany had been inside that general flow.