"Weimar's citizens cheered on Hitler": why the home of German democracy was easy prey for the Nazis In the 1920s and 1930s, Weimar was rife with contradictions, embracing both utopian modernism and Nazism. This German town’s interwar story, says Katja Hoyer, reveals how democratic dreams can die in the face of economic ills and polarising politics Adolf Hitler could not have been clearer. “I love ...