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The Weimar Republic (1918-1933)
 📌 Read a book about the Weimar Republic. You can read non-fiction or historical fiction for this prompt! 📌   

You can read about the devastation and the political changes after WWI, the great inflation or the high times of the Weimar Republic, which had the most liberal constitution of its time. You can read about the lives of LGBTQAI+ people during the Weimar Republic, or about the liberation of women. Or you can read about the complicated political fights and rivalries, about fights in the streets, political murders, and the rising Nazi terror.
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Der Gang vor die Hunde by Erich Kästner

Der Gang vor die Hunde

Erich Kästner

7 hours, 20 minutes • first pub 1931 (editions)

fiction classics reflective medium-paced
Der Weg zurück by Erich Maria Remarque

Der Weg zurück

All Quiet on the Western Front/The Road Back #2

Erich Maria Remarque

285 pages • first pub 1931 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Berlin! Berlin! Dispatches From The Weimar Republic, Berlin Stories from the Golden Twenties. by Kurt Tucholsky, Anne Nelson, Ian King

Berlin! Berlin! Dispatches From The Weimar Republic, Berlin Stories from the Golden Twenties.

Kurt Tucholsky, Anne Nelson, Ian King

198 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

reflective medium-paced
Das kunstseidene Mädchen by Irmgard Keun

Das kunstseidene Mädchen

Irmgard Keun

256 pages • first pub 1932 (editions)

fiction classics funny reflective medium-paced
Women in the Weimar Republic by Helen Boak

Women in the Weimar Republic

Helen Boak

304 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
Der Abend kommt so schnell by Cornelia Naumann

Der Abend kommt so schnell

Cornelia Naumann

409 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

informative mysterious tense medium-paced
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles by Kurt Tucholsky

Deutschland, Deutschland über alles

Kurt Tucholsky

256 pages • first pub 1929 (editions)

nonfiction politics informative reflective medium-paced
Menschen im Hotel by Vicki Baum

Menschen im Hotel

Vicki Baum

336 pages • first pub 1929 (editions)

fiction classics emotional medium-paced
Weimar 1918-1933: Die Geschichte der ersten deutschen Demokratie by Heinrich August Winkler
Weimar 1918-1933: Die Geschichte der ersten deutschen Demokratie
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Heinrich August Winkler

Weimar 1918-1933: Die Geschichte der ersten deutschen Demokratie

Heinrich August Winkler

711 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

Man möchte immer weinen und lachen in einem: Revolutionstagebuch 1919 by Victor Klemperer

Man möchte immer weinen und lachen in einem: Revolutionstagebuch 1919

Victor Klemperer

163 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced