HOW MUCH HOPE WAS THERE FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC 1919-29?
How: evaluate the case: there was more to be hopeful for than despairing of during the period 1919-29 in weimar germany?
Images of the Weimar Republic 1919-23
Collecting evidence for the enquiry
Read pages 76-80 in Authoritarian States (Todd and Waller) and collect evidence for the above statement, you should aim to collect at least a dozen points for hope and despair. You should arrange your ideas in a two column table.
For some more advanced understanding of the issues read Weimar and Nazi Germany (Hite and Hinton). Particularly the following diagrams are useful:
1. Was Weimar democracy doomed from the start?
2. After the period 1924 there was nothing inevitable about the failure of the Weimar democratic state?
3. The failure of the Weimar Republic was largely due to its failures to win over the elites rather than inherent weaknesses in the constitution?
For some more advanced understanding of the issues read Weimar and Nazi Germany (Hite and Hinton). Particularly the following diagrams are useful:
- Pg 9, Political Structure of the Kaisers Germany
- Pg 11, Germany at the beginning of the twentieth century
- Pg 13, The effects of the First World War on Germany
- Pg 17, Stages in the German Revolution 1918-1919
- Pg 26-27, The Weimar Constitution
- Pg 28, The political structure of the Weimar Republic
- Pg 31, The Weimar constitution: will it survive
- Pg 36, Key features of the Treaty of Versailles
- Pg 41, Germany in Turmoil 1919-1923
- Pg 74-75, Comparative statistics for the Weimar economy
- Pg81, Stresemann's work
- Page 98, Historian's assessments
1. Was Weimar democracy doomed from the start?
2. After the period 1924 there was nothing inevitable about the failure of the Weimar democratic state?
3. The failure of the Weimar Republic was largely due to its failures to win over the elites rather than inherent weaknesses in the constitution?
Home Learning: Watch the first episode of the 'The Nazis a Warning From History' (start 4.50mins).
Take notes under:
1. Earlier challenges to the Weimar Republic.
2. Economic difficulties of the Weimar Republic.
3. Early growth of the NSDAP.
4. The Golden Age of the Weimar Republic (1925-1929).
5. The Great Depression.
6. The NSDAP Electoral Gains 1928-1933
Take notes under:
1. Earlier challenges to the Weimar Republic.
2. Economic difficulties of the Weimar Republic.
3. Early growth of the NSDAP.
4. The Golden Age of the Weimar Republic (1925-1929).
5. The Great Depression.
6. The NSDAP Electoral Gains 1928-1933
Weimar, Germany