...In its 14 years the Weimar Republic was faced with numerous problems, including hyperinflation, political extremists and their paramilitaries, and hostility from the victors of the First World War. However, it overcame many discriminatory regulations of the Treaty of Versailles, reformed the currency, unified tax politics and the railway system. Its constitution was seen as one of the most modern in the world and the Republic represented a period of cultural innovation in Germany. Read full entry
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- In its 14 years the Weimar Republic was faced with numerous problems, including ... The Weimar Constitution created a republic under a semi-presidential system with ...
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- Weimar Republic Government of Germany 1919 – 33, so named because the assembly that adopted its constitution met at Weimar in 1919
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Weimar republic?
Im doing an essay on comparing
the culture of the Weimar
republic to the culture of
today. Are there any good
sites you can suggest with
good information because I am
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You might want to check out a very recent book that focuses very much on this very aspect --the CULTURE of the Weimar Republic (set against the political background and economic crises) as it attempted to respond to "modernism", great technological changes, the "mass media", etc. *Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy* by Eric D. Weitz (Princeton University Press, 2007) |
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How did the Weimar Republic How did the Weimar Republic
system work in Germany in
1919-1930?
Also, what were the strengths
and weaknesses of the system?
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The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government, named after Weimar, the place where the constitutional assembly took place. Its official name was still the German Empire, however. Following World War I, the republic emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918. In 1919, a national assembly convened in the city of Weimar, where a new constitution for the German Reich was written, to be adopted on 11 August. This liberal democracy eventually lapsed in the early 1930s, leading to the ascent of the NSDAP and Adolf Hitler in 1933. Although the constitution of 1919 was never officially repealed, the legal measures taken by the Nazi government in February and March 1933, commonly known as Gleichschaltung ("coordination") meant that the government could legislate contrary to the constitution. The constitution became irrelevant, therefore 1933 is usually seen as the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of Hitler's "Third Reich". In its 14 years the Weimar Republic was faced with numerous problems, including hyperinflation, political extremists and their paramilitaries, and hostility from the victors of the First World War. However, it overcame many discriminatory regulations of the Treaty of Versailles, reformed the currency, unified tax politics and the railway system. Its constitution was seen as one of the most modern in the world and the Republic represented a period of cultural innovation in Germany. |
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How did the Weimar Republic How did the Weimar Republic
lead to the rise of Adolph
Hitler?
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It did not and that is one of the unfortunate myths of history!! The Wiemar Republic is the name given to an effort to give Germany a framework for government following the catastrophe of World War from 1914 to 1918 and the subsequent wave of riots & turmoil rolling over Germany. What most historians conveniently forget is that Germany was still pretty much a confederation of states & kingdoms held together by the sheer will of the German Kaisers. Once their hold was broken in 1918 various groups scrambled to give Germany a framework for government one based upon Democratic principals. At this stage in 1918, and with hindsite, it would have been best for Germany to revert to its independent states (Kingdom of Bavaria, Prussia, etc) but with even the British and the French supporting tjhe notion of a United Germany, the experiment known as Wiemar began. Asn a form of government the Weimar Constitution had its flaws but it wasn't that horrible the truth is that a majority of Germans rejected Wiemar. They did not want a Constitutional Democracy. A Majority of Germans feared giving a politial voice to Communists and Jews, often considered to be one and the same, and Germans did not much care for Socialists or Social Democrats, either. What a majority of Germans wanted was a return to Monarchy. The rule of a Strong MAN. A Manly Man giving orders and shouldering the responsibility of Germany. The Weimar Republic did not lead to the rise of Hitler. Germans rejected the Wiemar Republic in favor of Hitler. Turbelent times helped Hitler but to 'blame' Wimar for Hitler's rise to power is simply wrong. There was a period of nearly five years when Germans were reasonably content with being a Republic, and then when their jobs were threatened by a global Depression, they flocked to the polls to vote for Nazi s to sit in the Reichstag and they in turn pressured President Hindenberg to appoint Hitler chancellor. Peace. . . x x x x wwww vv vv vv vv |
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