Weimar was Weimar: Politics, Culture and the Emplotment of the German Republic

The German Right in the Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic has long been synonymous in the public mind with political instability, economic crisis and cultural ferment. In recent years this image has been cemented as Weimar has been co-opted by many commentators in the United States and Europe as a benchmark for ‘crisis’, an exemplar of failure against which the political and economic uncertainties of our times are measured in order...

Shakespeare in the Weimar Republic

Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic

The hyperinflation episode in the Weimar Republic in the 1920s was not the first hyperinflation, nor was it the only one in early 1920s Europe or even the most extreme inflation in history (the Hungarian pengő and Zimbabwean dollar have both been more inflated). However, as the most prominent case following the emergence of economics as a scholarly discipline, it drew interest in a way that pre...

Invalidity and deformity in the art of Weimar Republic.

World War One (WWI) brought enormous losses to entire Europe. Eight million soldiers lost their lives and 7 million suffered untreatable injuries and were forced to spend the rest of their lives living with disability. Germany lost 15.1% of their active male population. It can be said that after the Great War, Europe was unrecognizable. It is hard to say whether people could even comprehend the...

In the Shadow of Sudhoff: German Medical History in the Weimar Republic

Switching from a replicative to a translesion polymerase is an important step to further continue on replication at the site of DNA lesion. Recently, RAD18 (a ubiquitin ligase) was shown to monoubiquitinate proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) in cooperation with RAD6 (a ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme) at the replication-stalled sites, causing the polymerase switch. Analyzing RAD18-knockout ...