The Weimar Republic suffered hyper-inflation, and it is known how that ended - very badly. Post war, by late 1919, the German mark had fallen significantly, and 48 paper marks were required to buy ...

In early November, the Kaiser abdicated, and a leading socialist party declared a republic, thus bringing the Weimar Republic to power. The November 11 armistice was signed soon after.

The Weimar Republic was a time of endless crises. Its existence ceased to exist after less than 14 years with the arrival of Adolf Hitler. Few at the time mourned German democracy. Weimar democracy.

The Weimar Republic (1918-1933) was full of contradictions, political tension rising alongside artistic and societal revolutions, and all captured stunningly in German art from the era.