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Weimar Republic
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Weimar Republic
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(Historical Terms) the German republic that existed from 1919 to Hitler's accession to power in 1933
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Noun1.Weimar Republic - the German republic founded at Weimar in 1919; "The Weimar Republic was overthrown in 1933 and replaced by the Third Reich"
republic, democracy, commonwealth - a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them


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In the East, the apparent lessons of the failed revolution of 1918 lived on, while in the West, people struggled to avoid the constitutional flaws and political errors that had brought down the Weimar regime.
66) The early post-1945 historiography of the disintegration of the Weimar Republic--led by Karl Dietrich Bracher's seminal work, Die Auflosung der Weimarer Republik, (67) published in 1955--views Hindenburg's appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in January 1933 as simply the culmination of this transformation of the Weimar regime into presidential dictatorship under Article 48.
 
 
 
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