Wäckerle, Hilmar

Wagener, Otto

wages

dispute in iron and steel industry

payment in kind

company spending

reduction

Wagner, Adolf

Wagner, Cosima

Wagner, Richard

epic music-dramas

a cultural antisemite

favours assimilation of Jews

increasingly racist

wants Jews excluded from German society

and Nietzsche

influences Hitler

The Twilight of the Gods

Judaism in Music

Parsifal

Ring cycle

Tannhäuser

Wagner, Robert

Waldoff, Claire

Walter, Bruno

war disabled

War Ministry

War Office

war widows

Wartburg Festival

Wartburg, Thuringia

Waterloo, battle of (1815)

Weber, Helene

Weber, Max

Webern, Anton von

Wedding quarter, Berlin

Wedekind, Frank: Spring’s Awakening (play)

Weill, Kurt

The Silver Sea (opera)

The Threepenny Opera

Weimar

Weimar Art Academy

Weimar Republic

collapse of

and origins of the Third Reich

violence on the streets

Ebert steers it into being

constitution

Reich President

power to rule by decree (Article)

Ebert’s hasty compromises

Hindenburg elected President

frequent changes of government

coalition government

strengths in foreign affairs, labour and welfare

federal structure

‘Weimar coalition’

Communists’ opposition to

Kapp putsch (1920)

blamed for Versailles

inflation

and the press

growth of antisemitism

enters its final turbulent phase (1932)

better freedom and equality for Jews

political divisions

Nazi attacks on

Wels defends its achievements

musical modernism

‘cultural Bolshevism’

‘Jewish-Bolshevist success’

press conferences

Nazi determination to destroy it

Weimar School of Arts and Crafts

Weimar state museum

Weiss, Bernhard

Weissenfels

welfare agencies

welfare system

Welier-ter-Meer

Wels, Otto

Weng, Landshut District

Wertheim brothers

Wessel, Horst

West Prussia

Westarp, Countess Heila von

Westarp, Kuno Graf von

Western Front

‘Western League’

Westphalia

Wheeler-Bennett, John

‘white terror’

white-collar workers

unemployment

and 1930 elections

‘Whites’

Wiefelstede, Weser-Ems constituency

Wiesbaden

Wilder, Billy

Wilhelm, Kaiser

Wilhelm, Kaiser

personality

and Bismarck’s resignation

annual proclamation (1918)

claims that army was stabbed in the back

abdication

war crimes issue

in exile

and German education

Wilhelmine Reich see also German Reich

Wilson, Woodrow

his ‘Fourteen Points’

Windthorst League

Wirth, Josef

Woltmann, Ludwig

women

suffrage

workers

and Italian fascism

Nazi Party membership

tendency to live longer than men

Woolworth’s

‘work-shy’

workers’ councils

working class

growing self-assertion

opposes antisemitism

impact of Versailles terms

and Marxism

industrial

Nazi Party members

support of Social Democrats

of Berlin

Working Community of Patriotic Fighting Leagues

World in the Evening (Welt am Abend) newspaper

World League for Sexual Reform

World Stage, The (Die Weltbühne)

magazine

Worms

Wuppertal

Württemberg