German Political Culture remained conservative and support for democracy was often superficial
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- German Political Culture remained conservative and support for democracy was often superficial
- Factors undermining democracy
- 'stab in the back'
- TOV
- Led to belief that gains of revolution were undone
- Public assumed it would follow Wilson's 14 points
- Diktat
- Appeal of soviet Communism
- Actions of Bruning, von Papen and von Schleicher
- Bismarck's legacy - Germany built on conservatism
- Social Darwinism
- Militarism, Racism and Nationalism
- Spartacist Revolt
- They had no real strategy
- Govt. led by defense minister Noske had backing of army troops and 120 irregular military-style groups
- Event created troubled atmosphere in following months
- More serious trouble in Bavaria in April resulted in short-lived soviet-type republic being established but again crushed by Freikorps
- The infant Republic had survived the traumas of its birth
- Public feeling about Weimar govt.
- German people unable to forgive the WR for signing armistice and TOV
- Hindenburg elected President in 1925 and was first to voice 'stab in the back'
- Hindenburg acted as a substitute Kaiser - Ersatzkaiser
- Hindenburg's public popularity was due to his pre-republic position and his lukewarm commitment to WR
- Factors undermining democracy
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