The Failed Weimar Republic and the Rise of Nazism

Democracy is fragile, as the lessons of the failed Weimar Republic of Germany during the interwar years can teach us. In this webinar, explore the myriad of political, economic, social, and cultural reasons for the demise of the Weimar Republic and how the Nazi Party capitalized on its weakness to gain total control of Germany in the 1930s.

This webinar connects to Lesson Plan Units 2 and 3 on the Echoes & Reflections website.

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Echoes & Reflections' webinars are designed to increase participants’ knowledge of Holocaust history, explore and access classroom-ready content, and support instructional practice to promote student learning and understanding of this complex history and its lasting effect on the world.