It was the birthplace of the liberal tradition, but also the incubator for Nazism – what can this historic city tell us about democracy? It was the birthplace of the liberal tradition, but also the incubator for Nazism – what can this historic city tell us about democracy? ‘W eimar is Germany in a nutshell,” 1990s president Roman Herzog once quipped: “a town in which not only culture and thought were at home but also philistinism and barbarism.” The small city (population 65,000) sits at the