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• n  a German city near Leipzig; scene of the adoption in 1919 of the constitution of the Weimar Republic that lasted until 1933

• Weimar

News & Articles

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• Duchess Portrait Missing Since WWII Returns to Her Heirs
  Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was portrayed by the artist Angelika Kauffmann in her Rome studio in 1789, according to Christoph von Berg, the lawyer who negotiated its return.
  June 23, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Harold Evans in San Francisco Chronicle
  My friend Harold Evans, who once edited the Times of London under Murdoch's ownership, wrote in a critical book that "Murdoch issued promises as prudently as the Weimar Republic issued marks."
• John Howard in Stuff.co.nz
  This country is a disaster. It has an appalling HIV-Aids problem, its living standards have sunk to rock bottom, it's got an inflation rate which reminds you of the Weimar (Republic), pre-Nazi Germany which we read about in our history books,...
• Toomas Hendrik Ilves in BBC News
  The Weimar mentality...... is so similar that I really hope we do not go off in the wrong direction,Mr Ilves told the Moscow Times.