Weimar Republic And Rise Of Nazis Essay
FAILURE OF WEIMAR REPUBLIC AND RISE OF NAZIS, 1918-1933
ESSAY PLAN FOR EXPLAINING WHY NAZIS WERE ABLE TO COME TO
POWER IN 1933
The usual question on this period asks you to explain why the Nazis were able to take power in 1933. Very often the question is of the ‘isolated factor’ type where it identifies one of the reasons and asks you to assess how important that was in explaining the success of the Nazis in coming to power. See the list of past paper essays on this topic on the website.
The important thing to remember is that you do not deal with the identified factor alone: you must look at all the factors contributing to the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis - but pay particular attention to the one that the question has picked out. The question I am …show more content…
Stresemann died and Germany’s dependency on American loans eventually brought disaster. When the American stock market and economy collapsed in the Wall Street Crash the loans to Germany were immediately stopped and the German economy suffered a second and much more serious collapse. Huge numbers of businesses closed and unemployment soared to six million. This was a key point in the collapse of the Weimar government – it could not survive another round of economic suffering and hardship for its people. The government did not want to fall into the
inflationary trap as in 1923, so it increased taxes and cut welfare benefits which had devastating effects on the German people. This economic crisis was a turning point and played a major part in helping the Nazis into power.
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Collapse of Democracy 1930 –1933 - The coalition governments could not cope with the demands of this crisis and parliament dissolved into chaos: the democratic Weimar
Republic was at an end. Under the constitution, Article 48 was utilised to allow the
President, Hindenburg, to rule by decree and during 1930-33 a succession
ESSAY PLAN FOR EXPLAINING WHY NAZIS WERE ABLE TO COME TO
POWER IN 1933
The usual question on this period asks you to explain why the Nazis were able to take power in 1933. Very often the question is of the ‘isolated factor’ type where it identifies one of the reasons and asks you to assess how important that was in explaining the success of the Nazis in coming to power. See the list of past paper essays on this topic on the website.
The important thing to remember is that you do not deal with the identified factor alone: you must look at all the factors contributing to the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis - but pay particular attention to the one that the question has picked out. The question I am …show more content…
Stresemann died and Germany’s dependency on American loans eventually brought disaster. When the American stock market and economy collapsed in the Wall Street Crash the loans to Germany were immediately stopped and the German economy suffered a second and much more serious collapse. Huge numbers of businesses closed and unemployment soared to six million. This was a key point in the collapse of the Weimar government – it could not survive another round of economic suffering and hardship for its people. The government did not want to fall into the
inflationary trap as in 1923, so it increased taxes and cut welfare benefits which had devastating effects on the German people. This economic crisis was a turning point and played a major part in helping the Nazis into power.
•
Collapse of Democracy 1930 –1933 - The coalition governments could not cope with the demands of this crisis and parliament dissolved into chaos: the democratic Weimar
Republic was at an end. Under the constitution, Article 48 was utilised to allow the
President, Hindenburg, to rule by decree and during 1930-33 a succession