A memorial service is to be held on Sunday to commemorate the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp near the ...

voted against it, the new constitution was eventually approved and signed in August 1919. This government eventually became known as the ‘Weimar Republic’.

In August, they adopted a democratic constitution. The Weimar Republic did not go down well in history, because that first attempt at making Germany a democracy did not end well, to say the least.

Hence, it became known as the Weimar Republic. Parliament was elected through a system of proportional representation. This resulted in the election of many small parties. It was difficult for one ...