Under German election law, parties must obtain a minimum ... to prevent tiny splinter parties like those that plagued the Weimar Republic from entering into parliament and fragmenting it, making ...

In May 1928 elections, the NSDAP only managed 2.6 percent of the vote nationwide. From its very beginnings, however, the Weimar Republic seemed unlucky. Not only were Germans unused to democracy ...

Kaplan claims that China, Russia, the United States, and mid-level and smaller powers are “running a strange simulation of the Weimar Republic.” Kaplan writes that “the entire world is one ...

Any account of Germany’s economically embattled, politically fractured and culturally avant-garde Weimar Republic is haunted ... repetitive listing of election results and cabinet reshuffles ...

the Weimar Republic. For the first time, all German people got the vote. They voted for their area’s representative in the Reichstag Parliament. Elections used what was seen as the fairest ...

The new constitution was agreed in August 1919 and the first elections in what became known as the Weimar Republic took place in June 1920, electing Ebert as Germany’s new President. In early ...

In Sunday’s election, the AfD came in second to Germany ... Germany’s democratic Weimar Republic came to an end with the rise of the Nazi party in 1933, borne by a populist wave.