Anisha Khemlani, 10 Grey
“The Weimar Republic was most in danger in 1923” How far do you agree with this statement?
I agree with this statement to an extent because more things happened in this year than they did in the rest. An example of this would be that the French & Belgium troops had invaded the Ruhr in this year as well and that could have been a great burden put upon The Weimar Republic and Germany as at that time they were already going through money problems and the Ruhr was one of their sources of income. Without the Ruhr they would have been left with nothing because earlier in 1919 the Rhineland had been invaded which was also one of their sources of income as it was their biggest coal region along with the Ruhr. Germany also did not have enough power to get rid of these troops so they had to just leave it, as they couldn’t fight back.
Although this was a huge problem to The Weimar Republic, the same problems took place in 1919 where the Rhineland had been taken over and at this time they also did have money problems due to inflation and such so 1923 wasn’t the only time they went through the most danger.
In conclusion, 1923 was the time the Weimar Republic was in most danger because at this time they had more problems adding on to what had already been there and that made it harder for them to deal with everything that was going