scholarly journals Jewish Liberalism in the Weimar Republic? Reconsidering a Key Element of Political Culture in the Interwar Era

2015 ◽  
pp. 155-170
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Interwar Era

Restitution and Democracy in Germany after Two World Wars

1995 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Authoritarian Regime ◽  
New Democracies ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
Political Values

As Central and East Europeans (including Germans) strive to build new democracies on the ruins of old dictatorships, they seek to establish democratic values as well as democratic institutions. They know that democratic institutions alone were not able to save democracy in Germany's Weimar Republic, which had also risen out of the collapse of an authoritarian regime. West Germans, though, later built a viable democracy, the Federal Republic, from even more devastated and authoritarian remnants. To help explain such differing outcomes, historians have posited changes in political values, arguing that West Germans developed a democratic political culture to replace the authoritarian values many Germans had held earlier. As illuminating as such arguments could be, historians have had great difficulty finding evidence on just what political values Germans, especially common citizens, have in fact held at various times.

Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Wein ◽  
Martin Ulmer
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Nazi Party ◽  
German Jews ◽  
Party Press ◽  
The Right

Antisemitism was an integral part of the Weimar Republic’s political culture and was widespread in society. During the 1920s, hostility towards Jews was often radical and militant, complemented by their increasing exclusion in everyday life. Right-wing anti-democrats weaponized antisemitic conspiracy myths against the Weimar Republic, defamed as the ‘Jew Republic’. In Reich and state parliaments and in the party press, antisemites attempted to charge public discourses with antisemitism and, in doing so, change the unwritten rules of what could and could not be said. Dwindling republican forces largely underestimated the looming danger. The defence organizations of the German Jews, from the early 1930s, had hardly any chance against the superior numbers of the right-wing extremist movement under the leadership of the Nazi party.

scholarly journals Antifascism in the Neighborhood: Daily Life, Political Culture, and Gender Politics in the German Communist Antifascist Movement, 1930–1933

Fascism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 167-194
Author(s):  
Sara Ann Sewell
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Street Politics ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
And Gender

Abstract This article examines grassroots communist antifascist politics in Germany during the final years of the Weimar Republic. In contrast to most studies on Weimar’s street politics, which focus on political violence, this research demonstrates that daily life, political culture, and gender relations shaped the communist antifascist movement in working-class neighborhoods. It argues that daily conflict with distinct political overtones or undertones increased steadily in the early 1930s. As a result, quarrels between neighbors were often colored with political narratives, and sometimes ordinary disputes escalated into political conflict and even violence. Political culture inflamed the tensions, particularly when Nazis and communists littered proletarian boroughs with their symbols. Women were often at the center of the conflict. Many joined the frontlines of communist antifascist struggle, where they faced widespread discrimination from male comrades who, flaunting a militant hypermasculinity, insisted that women belonged only in the rearguard.

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