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Vor 2 Tagen · Stinnes' empire collapsed after the government-sponsored inflation was stopped by the introduction of the Rentenmark on 15 November 1923. One U.S. dollar was equivalent to 4.20 Rentenmarks; the exchange rate was 1 Rentenmark to one trillion paper marks. The new money was backed by the Reich's gold reserves along with a 3.2 billion Rentenmark ...
Vor 3 Tagen · After a set of violent and tense episodes in the streets of Berlin during the last weeks of 1918, the government was ready to impose its authority ruthlessly over the Spartacist and Bolshevist challenge. The government did not spare means – including military weapons and tactics – to destroy its rivals.
Vor 3 Tagen · On the one hand, this might minimise the revolution’s short-term causes a little too much: if the First World War had never broken out, if chronic food shortages and war weariness had never driven the German people onto the streets, would the monarchy have collapsed in 1918? Probably not. However, such short term factors don’t ...
Vor 10 Stunden · Die Klassik Stiftung Weimar feiert die Erö nung. "Wir wollen mit dem gemeinsamen Festakt ein deutliches Zeichen für Demokratie setzen", so die Museumsdirektorin Dorothee Schlüter. Die zeitliche Nähe zu den Kommunalwahlen in Thüringen, die Ende Mai statt nden, liegt den Museumsmachern dabei besonders am Herzen. "Ist Weimar doch ein Brennglas der deutschen Gesellschaft", so ...
Vor einem Tag · Auch unsere Demokratie kann kollabieren. Wir Deutsche halten unser freiheitliches Leben längst für selbstverständlich. Dabei sind politische Systeme sterblich, warnt unser Gastautor, der ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Prof. Moshe Zimmermann, a historian of modern Germany at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, attempts to draw lessons from the fragile and divided German dem...
Vor 2 Tagen · 5/19/2024. View full document. The instability of Weimar Governments, in the years 1919-1923, stemmed primarily from the problems created by the Weimar Constitution. 1) Treaty of Versailles – blamed the ‘New Republic’ - Political assassinations of ‘November Criminals’ Erzberger 1921 Rathenau 1922 - The treaty irrevocably damaged the ...
