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title: "Rise and fall of a democracy"
date: 2017-09-23
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/germany-weimar-republic-first-democratic-elections-1919-weimar-context-en/"
description: "The first free and democratic elections took place in Germany just under 100 years ago and marked the dawn of what then became known as the Weimar Republic. Comments on a young democracy that was knocked off its unsteady feet by radical nationalists."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Header_Freie_Wahlen_Bundestagswahl_Weimarer_Republik_Reichstag_Geschichte.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# Rise and fall of a democracy