Political Culture in Weimar Germany
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- Created on: 22-01-18 18:20
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- Political Culture in Weimar Germany
- Profoundly Conservative and anti-democracy
- Gave power to uneducated
- Gave power to poor people who were interetsted in removing power and weath of rich
- Based on elections and discussions - so weak and unstable
- Bismarck - first Chancellor was anti-democracy
- Popular Militarism
- Military dominated by the aristocracy. Had never been accountable so was an obstacle to democracy
- High respect for army based on victory in wars against France
- Front Generation
- Groups such as the Navy League supported military but campaigned for undemocratic goals
- Stab in the theory
- Right up until the surrender German propaganda had promised a certain German Victory
- It was widely known that at the point when Germany surrendered they occupied French territory
- Popular militarism meant Germans had faith their army was invincible
- Made worse by TOV
- Popular Racism
- Latent anti-semitism
- Many Germans supported colonialism
- Army rejected black recruits believing they would 'pollute' white Europ
- Social Darwinsim
- Political Violence
- Legacy of Bismarck
- Political assassination- Rathenau
- Profoundly Conservative and anti-democracy
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