Extreme Nationalists like Adolf Hitler had a strong idea on who should be the blame for Germany’s loss of land and the failure at the Treaty of Versailles. Adolf Hitler and the Nazism party blamed the Weimar Republic. “Hitler and the Nazi Party gained power in Germany by exploiting the ...
The first years of the Weimar Republic were unsettled and tumultuous, marked by international isolation and economic suffering. In the mid-1920s, Germany moved into a more prosperous period dubbed the ‘Golden Age of Weimar’, a time of economic recovery, social renewal and cultural innovation. ...
Why study the history of prostitution in the Weimar Republic? How can the topic of prostitution deepen our understanding of this period, and especially of the crisis of Weimar democracy and the rise of Nazism? As I show in this study, German attitudes towards prostitution in the 1920s and ...
Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord(1878-1943) was commander-in-chief of theReichswehrduring the early 1930s. Of aristocratic birth, Hammerstein-Equord served in eastern Europe during World War I. After the war, he remained in the army as a divisional commander. Though he remained aloof from Weimar ...
The end of the Weimar Republic also has little in common with today. Unlike current heads of states, governments of the early 1930s had limited power to mitigate against the impact of economic and financial crisis as exemplified in the disastrous consequences of the Great Depression. Furthermore...
In the early 1930s, the German military began to take an interest in using rockets to produce new artillery systems. The Germans had a unique motivation to develop rocket technology, as it was not prohibited by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. The pioneering work of engineers like Hau...
and a robust judiciuary governed by a written constitution have to be disabled. The United States differs structurally and significantly from unstable powers that have experienced tyranny like Germany’s Weimar Republic, Italy prior to Mussolini and the Russian Monarchy’s spectacular failure prior to...
The birth of the Weimar Republic “If the Kaiser does not abdicate, the social revolution is inevitable. But I do not want it, I even hate it like sin.” Friedrich Ebert, SPD politician, November 1918 “The old and rotten, the monarchy has collapsed. The new may live. Long live the ...
The Weimar Republic:The Weimar Republic as a democratic government established after the fall of Kaiser Wilhelm in 1918. The Republic governed Germany through the 1920's and early 30's before it was dissolved by the Nazis in 1933.Answer and Explanation: ...
30.1.2: The Weimar Republic In its 14 years in existence, the Weimar Republic faced numerous problems, including hyperinflation, political extremism, and contentious relationships with the victors of the First World War, leading to its collapse during the rise of Adolf Hitler. Learning Objective ...