Creating political stability in the FRG
- Created by: Amelia Louise Harris
- Created on: 03-04-16 21:22
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- Creating political stability in the FRG
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- 5% hurdle
- representative system
- federal
- lesser role of the president
- There were extremist parties in 1949
- there were 12 parties in 1949, which ran the risk of political fragmentation
- Right wing SRP was banned 1952
- KPD was banned in 1956.
- Adenauer's political system
- showed he could integrate a wide range of political views
- an effective party machine
- Broad appeal. from working to upper class and urban to country side populations
- CDU were predominantly Catholic, which appealed to the FRG population.
- Just over half were Catholic
- he worked to gain the support of those most politically motivated
- especially focused on the 9 million fugees
- Adenauer's longevity
- hos successful policies
- Pragmatic approach e.g. "no experiments"
- appealed to those who just wanted a quite life
- appealed to those who just wanted a quite life
- 60% of the population "preferred property, jobs and the possibility of a substantial income to all democratic freedoms"
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- The rehabilitation and use of former Nazis
- Most controversial aspect of Adenauer's policies
- it meant Adenauer was able to draw on the talents of a capable administration and politicians
- Adenauer's new foreign ministry consisted of 39/49 former Nazis
- Minister for refugees, Oberlander, was forced to resign in 1960 because he was a former ** man
- Globke, secretary of state, was the official author of the commentary on the Nuremberg Race laws of 1935
- Easing off on denazification
- Under a series of amnesties war criminals were steadily eased back into civilian life
- many crimes were never investigated
- 1951 Reinstatement Act, Former Nazis who had lost their jobs were now given them back with full pensions (in the civil service.
- in 1950's 40-80% of civil servants were former Nazis
- in 1950's 40-80% of civil servants were former Nazis
- Entrepreneurs were allowed to use their fortunes gained during the Nazi period
- Fulbrooke claimed there was some form of "amnesia" surrounding Nazism
- Frei claims Nazism was "actively addressed" by reducing the need for former Nazis to live in shame or fear retribution
- the situation of ignoring Nazi war crimes was challenged and viewed much differently in the 60's
- Auschwitz trials
- Anti-communist feeling in the 1950's
- People were put off the KPD after developments in Europe
- They were banned i 1956
- SPD was tarnished with a red brush
- SPD weaknesses helped Adenauer
- Schumacher (SPD leader) made the mistake of opposing moves to align with the West. he had also said the CDU's economic policies would be disastrous
- Judy claimed their opposition to CDU policies contributed to the FRGs stability
- SPD personally divided over rearmament
- Bad Godberg programme 1959
- SPD leader in 1952, Ollenhauer was colourless
- People were put off the KPD after developments in Europe
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- Reconstruction of towns and cities
- April 1950, construction law (grants to Lander and cities for building projects)
- 4 million new dwellings were built by 1957
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- Safeguards
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