1. The Weimar Republic (1918 - 1933)
The Weimar Republic experienced a series of political and economic challenges in the years after the First World War; however there was also positive progress in the economic, cultural and social spheres and in foreign relations after 1923. Nevertheless the fact that it was followed by a ruthless dictatorship means that, as Ian Kershaw writes '[it]..has been overshadowed by its end and what followed'. Guiding...