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How did the Weimar Republic survive?

Weimar culture

You must know the names of the following leaders of the German cultural flowering of the 1920s:

  • singer/actress Marlene Dietrich
  • architect Gropius the leader of the Bauhaus [Bauhaus: The influential German school of Modernist art and design 1919-1933. It was shut down by the Nazis. ] movement
  • artists Paul Klee and Otto Dix
  • writer Erich Maria Remarque who wrote 'All Quiet on the Western Front'
  • film-maker Fritz Lang

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