Weimar

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.

The process was designed specifically by the post-war founders of modern Germany to avoid the political instability of the Weimar era.

Basically, this insecurity regarding food and inflation, a massive inflation under the Weimar Republic, shook people to the core.