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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of central Germany southwest of Leipzig. The capital of the duchy of Saxe-Weimar, it developed as the most important cultural center in Germany after the arrival of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1775. In 1919 the German National Assembly met here and established the Weimar Republic, which lasted until 1933.
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city inGermany located in theBundesland ofThuringia (German :Thüringen ), north of the Thüringer Wald, east ofErfurt , and southwest ofHalle andLeipzig . - proper noun The period in German
history from 1919 to 1933, when the nation was under a constitution drafted in the city of Weimar.
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- noun a German city near Leipzig; scene of the adoption in 1919 of the constitution of the Weimar Republic that lasted until 1933
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Examples
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A few months ago, I wrote about what I call the Weimar Dollar (the dollar as nearly worthless currency).
Fool's Gold 2008
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It sucked to be one of the more perceptive people in Weimar Germany too, as the country devolved into fascism.
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In 1932, the last year of fully free and and fair elections in Weimar Germany, two elections were held and the combined Nazi+Communist vote in those two was very close to 50%, with the Nazis in the mid 30s and the Communists in the mid teens.
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In 1932, the last year of fully free and and fair elections in Weimar Germany, two elections were held and the combined Nazi+Communist vote in those two was very close to 50%, with the Nazis in the mid 30s and the Communists in the mid teens.
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You think what happened in Weimar was a good thing?
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Rich M says: zuch: It sucked to be one of the more perceptive people in Weimar Germany too, as the country devolved into fascism.
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If we went down that path we would be following a road which starts in Weimar, goes on through Harare and must not end in Westminster and London.
Turning on the bank note printing presses Not a sheep 2009
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It is important to understand that National Socialism was a synthesis of the two dominant strains of ideological thought in Weimar Germany.
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Alright, the major reason hyperinflation happened in Weimar Germany was the French occupation of the Ruhr.
Matthew Yglesias » Kinsley’s Transcendental Deduction of Hyperinflation 2010
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So no immiseration as in Weimar, and no revolt of the dispossessed.
Those Reassuringly Dull Germans Josef Joffe 2010
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