Editing Weimar Republic (section)

== Legacy ==
[[Propaganda in Nazi Germany|Nazi propaganda]] tended to describe the Weimar Republic as a period of treason, degeneration, and corruption. The whole period from 1918 to 1933 was described in propaganda as "The time of the System" (''Systemzeit''), while the Republic itself was known as "[[The System (Nazism)|The System]]" (''Das System''), a term that was adopted into everyday use after 1933.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schmitz-Berning |first=Cornelia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d5r7Vrz3UgIC |title=Vokabular des Nationalsozialismus |publisher=[[De Gruyter]] |year=2010 |isbn=978-3-11-092864-8 |pages=597–598 |language=de |access-date=14 October 2022 |archive-date=2 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202035922/https://books.google.com/books?id=d5r7Vrz3UgIC |url-status=live }}</ref> Another Nazi phrase used for the republic and its politicians was "the [[November criminals]]" or "the regime of the November criminals" (German: ''November-Verbrecher''), referring to the month the republic was founded in (November 1918).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wires |first=Richard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pA0fAAAAMAAJ |title=Terminology of the Third Reich |date=1985 |publisher=[[Ball State University]] |pages=44 |language=en |lccn=85047938}}</ref>

According to ''[[Foreign Policy]]'', the Weimar Republic is seen as "the best-known historical example of a 'failed' democracy that ceded to fascism".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Robert |first=Gerwarth |date=6 February 2021 |title=Weimar's Lessons for Biden's America |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/06/weimars-lessons-for-bidens-america/ |access-date=14 August 2023 |website=Foreign Policy}}</ref>