Abstract

The paper analyses the political implications of the Weltbühne-Prozess, one of the most controversial cases in 20th Century German history. On the basis of archive research carried out at the Foreign Office of the GFR, the author underlines, on the one hand, the international implications of the trial and, on the other hand, the questionable way in which the trial was conducted. The Weltbühne-Prozess was an example of the crisis in the democratic institutional structures of the Weimar Republic