“Nothing is more exotic than what surrounds us, nothing is more imaginative than objectivity,” said the Austrian-Czech writer Egon Erwin Kisch in 1925. Kisch is among the dozens of writers, painters, ...

Germany’s fragile new democracy was pushed to the brink when nationalist forces marched on Berlin in 1920. The Kapp Putsch briefly overthrew the government, but a nationwide strike cut off power, food ...

In the aftermath of the First World War, avant-garde, utopian and idealistic styles were rejected as superficial by German artists who sought more realistic responses to the everyday world of post-war ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. HALBERSTADT A.H.[[am Harz]] / ...

The Wilhelmshaven Revolt - a chapter of the revolutionary movement in the German navy, 1918-1919, by 'Ikarus' - real name Ernst Schneider… ...

German working-class immigration and the social democratic tradition of Germany ; Immigrant neighborhoods and American society : German immigrants on Chicago's Northwest side in the late nineteenth ...