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3 days ago · The Weimar Republic, established in the aftermath of World War I, was a bold experiment in democracy that sought to transform Germany into a modern, progressive nation. However, despite its notable achievements in areas such as women‘s rights, cultural innovation, and social welfare, the Weimar Republic was beset by a series of fundamental ...
1 day ago · According to Foreign Policy, the Weimar Republic is seen as "the best-known historical example of a 'failed' democracy that ceded to fascism". [182] Constituent states [ edit ]
3 days ago · Contrary to popular belief, therefore, it was not the strength of the German right, but its weakness, that imperilled the Weimar Republic (pp. 591–5). Jones’s invaluable monograph illustrates the threat posed by a conservative party that wavers in its commitment to democracy and panders to a radicalised grass-roots base.
2 days ago · As most Social Democrats were forced to join with the old elites to prevent an imminent council dictatorship, the blame for the failure of the Weimar Republic was to be put on the extreme Left, and the events of 1918/19 were successful defensive actions of democracy against Bolshevism.
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2 days ago · However, historians to date have not highlighted the sheer importance of violence in the origins of the Weimar Republic, because doing so has been seen as a concession to the arguments of those political groups (both from left and right) that prevented and destroyed German democracy.
4 days ago · This was condemned as ‘a Magna Carter for the criminal’ (p. 100) and judges saw the republic as being ‘unable to assert the authority of law in the face of organized crime’ and that ‘the democratization of law after 1918’ had rendered it ‘impotent in the face of crime’ (p. 117).
3 days ago · The Weimar Republic in Germany gave way to two episodes of political and economic turmoil, the first culminated in the German hyperinflation of 1923 and the failed Beer Hall Putsch of that same year. The second convulsion, brought on by the worldwide depression and Germany's disastrous monetary policies, resulted in the further rise of Nazism ...
