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Vor einem Tag · The Weimar Republic faced severe economic challenges throughout its existence, which played a crucial role in undermining its stability and legitimacy. In the immediate aftermath of World War I, Germany was burdened with the payment of substantial war reparations to the victorious Allies, as stipulated by the Treaty of Versailles. These reparations, which amounted to 132 billion gold marks ...
Vor einem Tag · In its initial years, grave problems beset the Republic, such as hyperinflation and political extremism, including political murders and two attempted seizures of power by contending paramilitaries; internationally, it suffered isolation, reduced diplomatic standing and contentious relationships with the great powers.
Vor 2 Tagen · As the author puts it, ‘the question of authority underwrote the legitimacy of the Weimar Republic, whether in the spheres of economy, foreign policy, culture and law where it was frequently challenged.’ (p. 181) Yet the focus is not merely on high politics, high finance or high art.
15. Mai 2024 · Faced with the challenges of ‘stabilisation’ in Weimar’s middle period and then the catastrophe of the Great Depression, cracks began to appear in this façade of right-wing unity, leaving a weak and fragmented Right unable to do anything to prevent the more dynamic National Socialists from encroaching on their territory and ...
Vor 4 Tagen · The key contribution of Founding Weimar is to reveal the crucial role of fears, rumours, misrepresentations of reality, and anxiety in the processes of political violence that marred the birth of the Weimar Republic. The breeding ground of such psychological reactions was street politics: the struggle for the appropriation and ...
Vor 4 Tagen · The problems it had with working were legion: The crippling blow they started with was the conviction among the mass majority of its people that it was formed in bad faith. The leftists hated it for being formed to spite them, the rightists hated it for feeling like a toothless successor to the order they had before.
9. Mai 2024 · Hyperinflation and the Fallout Despite its new constitution, the Weimar Republic faced one of Germany's greatest economic challenges: hyperinflation. Thanks to the Treaty of Versailles, Germany's ability to produce revenue-generating coal and iron ore decreased.
