Causes of the collapse of the Weimar Republic
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- Created on: 18-02-21 19:43
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- Collapse of Weimar democracy
- Political disillusion. Too few Germans believed in the Republic.
- "Ludendorff's manoeuvre... the 'stab-in-the-back' myth and the shock of defeat were the background to the birth of democracy in Germany. It was not a promising beginning." Hite and Hinton, 2000
- "The most persuasive cause of Weimar's failure was that too many germans did not regard it as a 'legitimate regime'."
- Damaging inheritance
- Attacks by left- and right-wing insurgents
- Wall Street Crash 1929
- Vindictive peace settlement
- Treaty of Versailles has been described as "both the most democratic in the world... the the biggest reason why democracy failed."
- French occupation of the Ruhr
- Myths and lies of right-wing enemies
- Unable to throw them off
- November criminals
- Matthias Erzberger assassinated by Ehrhardt's Organisation Consul in 1921
- Ludendorff's maneouvre
- 'Stab-in-the-back' myth (dolchstoss)
- Diktat (dictated peace) of Treaty of Versailles
- Few leaders of great authority and stability
- Stresemann
- Young Plan 1929
- Locarno Pact 1925
- Dawes Plan 1924
- Stresemann
- exploitations of the Weimar Constitution
- President's Article 48 powers
- Proportional representation
- Short-lived coalition governments
- 11 governments in 6 years
- Short-lived coalition governments
- Economic difficulties
- Unable to generate its own 'economic miracle'
- Could not return to pre-war levels of prosperity
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- Political disillusion. Too few Germans believed in the Republic.
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