In 1950, when the East German authorities demolished the Royal Palace in the center of Berlin, they retained a single piece of the façade that was incorporated into the new Foreign Ministry. This allowed them to preserve the balcony from which, on November 9, 1918, Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the short-lived German Workers’ Republic. A few blocks away, but on the other side o (...)
February 15, 2008
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Failed Experiment
Weimar GermanyPromise and TragedyEric D. WeitzPrinceton University Press, $29.95, 432 pp.
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