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{{quote|''Germany was having trouble, what a sad, sad story...''
|''[[The Producers]]''}}
If you're ever on ''[[QI]]'' and [[Stephen Fry]] asks you what Germany was called in 1930 (he hasn't done it yet, but it's bound to come up at some point), don't say "The Weimar Republic". That name is an invention of historians and was not used at the time (like [[The Bonn Republic]]). The correct term is "Deutsches Reich" (German Realm).
Weimar (so called because that's where the constitution was written - Berlin remained the capital
Ironically Friedrich Ebert, the chief founder and first president of the Weimar Republic had not wanted to establish a republic at all. Though a social democrat, he was also a monarchist and wanted to keep the Hohenzollerns (albeit reduced to figurehead status as in Britain); the declaration of the republic was only a desperate move by a member of his cabinet to stop the communists declaring one instead. Technically, it failed in that - the Communists declared a Council Republic a few hours later. Very few people cared about the second declaration. After that there was no going back, even if the monarchists wished so.
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