Visitors watching a film at the House of the Weimar Republic Museum, in Weimar, Germany. — Lena Mucha/The New York Times
IN the winter of 1919, the leaders of the newly founded German Republic, having overthrown Emperor Wilhelm II at the end of World War I, searched for a city to host a constitutional convention.
They settled on the small city of Weimar, centrally located and home to a theatre large enough for all delegates.
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