The Weimar Republic
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- Created on: 08-12-13 22:14
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- The Weimar Republic
- Main Features
- The Bill of Rights (freedom of speech & right to belong to a trade union)
- parliament
- Reichstrat (upper house)
- Reichstag (lower house)
- All Germans over the age of 20 could vote.
- Political Problems
- no real tradition of democracy
- uprisings
- Kapp Putsch (1920) Freikorps
- The Spartacist Uprising (1919) Communist Party
- Munich Putsch (November 1923) NSDAP
- political assasinations
- Constitutional Weaknesses
- Article 48 (President was able to rule in decree)
- proportional representation (seats were given by the number of votes they earned)
- army was not fully under government's control
- many government officials were right-wing and wanted to destroy the government
- The November Criminals
- myth of the stab in the back (Dolchstows)
- Main Features
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