The Weimar Republic Under Stresemann (Achievements)

The Economy

• Stresemann - skillful politician - had support
• 1920s - Europe coming out of a post-war depression
• He built up Germany's economy again
• Dawes Plan - spread reparation payments over a longer period, loans from the US put into industry
  • Into businesses, replacing old equipment
  • Into Public works, swimming pools and apartment blocks etc.
  • Providing facilities, created jobs
• 1927
  • industry recovering well
• 1928
  • same levels of production as before the war
  • second greatest power (industrial)
  • wages for workers rose - higher standard of living
  • exports increased, reparations being paid
  • government increased welfare benefits and state employees wages

Culture

• Strict censorship abolished - free expression of ideas
• Writers and…