Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Summary: How did Germany
emerge from WW1?
- Germany was in chaos after WWI
- food shortages and other problems caused by the war
= mutinies, strikes and protests
- Kaiser abdicated, Germany became a republic
- Armistice signed by "November
Criminals" on the 11th of Nov. 1918
- German surrender
- Spartacist Uprising, defeated by the Freikorps
- Weimar Republic formed. It
was a true democracy with
some weaknesses
- Article 48 ("the suicide clause") and proportional
would later contribute to the Republic's collapse
- Helped by Hitler, too, who exploited these problems