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2 days ago · The erosion of traditional social hierarchies and the perceived decline in moral standards were seen by many as a direct consequence of the political and economic instability of the republic. As historian Detlev Peukert argues, "The Weimar Republic was a society in crisis, a crisis that was not merely economic and political but also cultural ...
1 day ago · The Weimar Republic was severely affected by the Great Depression. The economic stagnation led to increased demands on Germany to repay the debts owed to the United States. In 1926, about two million Germans were unemployed, which rose to around six million in 1932, with many blaming the Weimar Republic.
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1 day ago · After 1945, West German historical research on the Weimar Republic concentrated most of all on its decline. In 1951, Theodor Eschenburg mostly ignored the revolutionary beginning of the republic. In 1955, Karl Dietrich Bracher also dealt with the German Revolution from the perspective of the failed republic.
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5 days ago · Wednesday at 6:55 AM. #1. Been doing some reading as to why Weimar Germany fell and the Nazis were able to take over, and it was both enlightening and depressing. Weimar Germany was, in essence, a cargo-cult attempt at democracy at best. Forced to form overnight following WWI, a country that had been a series of feudal lords who had formed into ...
May 9, 2024 · See all videos for this article. As chancellor from August 13 to November 23, 1923, during the crisis over the Allied occupation of the Ruhr, and as foreign minister from August 1923 to his death, Stresemann exercised decisive influence over the fate of the Weimar Republic, and he became a statesman of European stature.
May 15, 2024 · But the persistence of this image of Weimar as ‘the mother of all political failures’ in the 21st century is curious given that over the past 20 years historians have convincingly challenged the view of the republic as a doomed democratic experiment.
3 days ago · The central thesis is that the defining problem of the period was the question of authority and the search for a ‘ total solution’ to the inherent contradictions of ‘classical modernity’ as outlined by Peukert (p. 4).
