Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why did the Weimar Republic fail by 1933?
- Inevitable because of the circumstances of 1918-19
- Unemployment
- Treaty of Versailles
- Communist and Right Wing Threats
- Appeal of Hitler and the Nazis
- Link to economic problems and Versailles
- Hitler as an orator
- Goebbels and Hugenburg
- Intimidation
- Weaknesses of the constitution
- Proportional representation
- Article 48
- Weaknesses of the existing Political Parties
- SPD
- Liberals
- Conservatives
- Communists
- Survival of the Traditional ruling Class
- Ebert/Groener Pact
- Industrialists Prosper
- Secret Rearmament
- Conspiracy
- Economic problems
- War and Post War
- Reparations
- Inflation
- Unsolved problems 1924-9
- Depression