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The Weimar Republic was explicitly referred to as such by its contemporaries
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REFUTED
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Is it true that the Weimar Republic was explicitly referred to as such by its contemporaries?
No. The evidence shows that contemporaries did not call the state the Weimar Republic; its official name was the German Reich, and contemporaries referred to it as the German Republic, while the term Weimar Republic was popularized later.
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Wikipedia: Weimar Republic. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic
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