Weimar

Adolf Hitler and his closest lieutenants understood democratic structures and processes as well as anyone in the era, and set about disabling then dismantling the Weimar Republic.

Buchenwald, near Weimar, Germany, had been chosen by the SS division of the Nazis as the place that produced objects made from human skin - preferably skin that had been tattooed.

But as the Weimar Republic's economy collapsed, so did the ruling coalition led by the center-left Social Democratic Party.

In a statement read on her behalf to the court, Mr Murkin's sister, Anne Weimar, said he was "the best motorcyclist ever".

The Weimar Republic, as I argue in my new book, was a far-flung world of permanent crisis, where little got resolved, just like our world today.