Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany - Hardcoverby Harald J? hner (Author) The dramatic and consequential history of Germany's short lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic turmoil Out of the ashes of the First World War, Germany launched an unprecedented political project: its first democratic government. The Weimar Republic, named for the city where it was established, endured for only fifteen years before