But Yegor Gaidar, an architect of Mr Yeltsin's economic reforms, this week proposed an alternative: Weimar Germany.

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Searching for historical precedents, Bridgewater put together detailed histories of previous credit crises, going back to Weimar Germany.

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Last month, the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaras, warned Europe that his country was on the edge of a Weimar Germany-style social collapse.

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The exhibition's pictures from this period, such as his Bauhausian shot of the interior of the Anhalter Bahnhof railway terminus, show his curiosity and humor, and that he had absorbed the modernist aesthetic being developed in Weimar Germany.

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The Austrian program was a model for later programs in Hungary, Bulgaria and, yes, Greece, and was used as a "background model" for dealing with the crisis in Germany's Weimar Republic, she told an audience at St.

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In 1925, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg became the second president of Germany's postwar Weimar Republic.

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Germany still remembers the Weimar Republic.

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Was not a primary lesson of the past, from Prussia to Weimar and the Third Reich, that the army must never show force inside Germany?

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