By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.

Definitions:

Organized Crime: Criminal activities performed by groups or networks in a systematic and organized way. Source: Rosella Selmini. University of Chicago Press.

The Mafia: A large group of organized criminals. Source: Cambridge Dictionary.

Ringvereine: Served as an underworld-government and maintained close ties to police officials, judges and politicians. Source: Feraru/Muskel. Die Ringvereine. Argon, 1995.

Following the end of the Great War of 1914 to 1918, Germany struggled to recreate itself out of the wreckage and chaos they had created across Europe and the world, and in 1919 eventually established a constitutional federal republic, the first of its kind in the country’s history. The convocation that created it took place in the city of Weimar, the capital of the Thuringia province in Central Germany. From 1919 until 1933, the country was known as The Weimar Republic.

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