A German Resistance Memorial Center Foundation exhibition
Founded in 1919, the Weimar Republic was under pressure from the beginning. Authoritarian ideas and nationalist thinking were deeply rooted in parts of German society.
Numerous democrats in the political and societal sectors, however, warned from an early point of the dangers posed to the republic by its völkisch, antisemitic, extreme-right, and National Socialist opponents. They feared for the basic rights and social achievements of the country’s first parliamentary democracy.
The exhibition uses biographies of 27 dedicated men and women to show examples of the fight against National Socialism before 1933. It spotlights various fields of action, motivations, and forms of confronting the rising Nazi movement, making clear that the Weimar Republic was by no means a “democracy without democrats.”
The exhibition is on display at the German Resistance Memorial Center in the special exhibition area on the first floor from January 22, 2026, to August 23, 2026.
