Berlin in the late 1920s was a dynamic, fast-paced city with a remarkably seedy underbelly. As the capital of the Weimar Republic (the German state as it existed between the end of World War I and ...

Germany’s fragile new democracy was pushed to the brink when nationalist forces marched on Berlin in 1920. The Kapp Putsch ...

In the wake of its success with the German sci-fi thriller "Dark," Netflix has found another quality coproduction from Germany in the 1920s-set crime series "Babylon Berlin." Based on the crime novels ...

A Berliner, however, in white tie and tails. Champagne in hand. A study in elegance, charisma and silkily ironic wit. A Jazz Age Berliner, that is, from the Weimar era. Wait, sorry. I got a little ...

In the waning days of 1918, Germany felt humiliated by its military defeat in World War I and exhausted after a political revolution turned it into a parliamentary democracy. But despite the upheaval, ...

In the 1920s, Yiddish was more than just a lingua franca for East European Jewish émigrés; it was also a language of high culture, as demonstrated by a brilliant new book, “Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: ...

More than two decades in the making, Jason Lutes’ Berlin, an epic historical graphic novel set during the rise of the Nazi party in 1920s Berlin, will be published in a complete edition this month by ...