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The term Weimar Republic is used by historians to signify the democratic and republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933.
Following World War I, the republic emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918. In 1919 a national assembly convened in the city of Weimar, where a new constitution for the German Reich was written, that was adopted on August 11. The first attempt to establish a liberal democracy in Germany failed with the ascent of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in 1933. Although technically the 1919 constitution was not invalidated until after World War II, the legal measures taken by the Nazi government in February and March 1933, commonly known as Gleichschaltung, destroyed the mechanisms of a true democracy. Therefore 1933 is usually seen as the end of the Weimar Republic and as the beginning of Hitler's so-called "Third Reich".
The name Weimar Republic was never used officially during its existence. Despite its political form, the new republic was still known as Deutsches Reich in German, rendered in a literal translation as German Empire but often called German Reich in English, due to confusion over the use of the term "empire" for a republic which had given up imperial ambitions and due to the word "reich" having other possible non-imperial translations.[2] The common short form remained Germany. The term reich would regain its use as a term describing empire when the Nazis used it.
Weimar Republic is what I refer to before the Rise Of Nazi Germany before Hitler was made Chancellor. So pardon me for referring it as Nazi, Err Pre-Nazi is perhaps the better term, however at the same time Nazi's had political positions in the Weimar Republic where Nazism was constructive in making a better Germany after WWI.
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