context: The Republic of Weimar () is the name for Germany from 1919 to 1933 used in historical research, when the country was a republic. Officially, the name of the state was the German Reich (Deutsches Reich). The era is considered to have begun when the new German constitution in Weimar entered into force on August 11, 1919, after Germany suffered a defeat in the First World War. The Weimar Republic ended with the rise of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists, and the end of democracy in the country.
question: What was the Weimar Republic?
answers.text: name for Germany from 1919 to 1933