The Failure Of The Weimar Republic

On November, 9 of 1918, they announce on the radio the beginning of a new government. that government was the weimar. The Weimar was a good thing for some and brought many successes for Germany. Still, along with the many successes they also had failures. in 1923, they couldn’t pay the reparations. So they ended up having to print more money to pay them. This caused hyperinflation. Their money became so useless people made fire with the stacks of money. The same year, a man named Gustav Stresemann became Germany’s new chancellor. With him he brang new ideas on how to solve hyperinflation. He borrowed money from the United States to pay off the debt. People now had jobs and the infrastructure increased. The jubilee in germany continued for many years. At this time Adolf Hitler was rising up. He was unhappy with the new way of government and wanted to make his own. He started giving speeches about the government and how it was corrupt and whatnot. However, the german people saw no reason to riot, since Stresemann had fixed that problem already.
For example, article 48. This article stated that in case of emergency the president took all control. Why was this relevant? Because this made them cause ‘accidents’ on purpose to continue getting power. This takes us to the other main reason, proportional representation. This meant that all the people the citizens voted for, could make it through the reichstag. The reichstag had the power to make laws, hence all the trouble. These were the main reasons why the Weimar had so much problems and the reason why people thought it might of been corrupt. Inflation was also a big cause but we alredy spoke about that. Going back to the subject, one of the accidents caused was the Reichstag fire, which happened on February 27 of 1933, but we will speak of that