Synopsis
While the Weimar Republic boomed under borrowed money, non-political groups such as the Wandervogel were founded by German's who disapproved of 'Weimar Decadence'.
- Programme: Nazis: A Warning from History
- Episode: Helped into Power
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 1997
- History | Germany, 1890-1945 | The Weimar Republic 1918-29 | The early challenges to the Weimar Republic, 1919-23
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