Homework Past Question Charlie Rea 20/09/2014 Explain how the Nazis increased their control over Germany from 1933-4. Hitler had become Chancellor of the Weimar Republic on 30th January 1933 but this was still a weak position and was under threat from the Reichstag‚ President Hindenburg and the army. All of them could prevent his rise to power. Each of these would have to be dealt with in turn if he was to set up a successful dictatorship. He was also under threat from other groups especially the
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Germany were lead to believe that they would be the victors in The First World War. The troublesome loads of reparations created hyperinflation and poverty. Germany struggled to reestablish a proper government‚ as many people lost faith in the Weimar Republic. Adolf Hitler promised to restore the nation and gained many followers because the people of Germany were terribly miserable and began to seek answers from extremist parties. Although it was not immediate‚ supporters of Hitler along with the Nazi
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rise to power was created by the Weakness of the Weimar Government‚ coupled with the conditions created by the Great Depression and Hitler’s own steps to power. Hitler’s ascension to sole leader of the Third Reich is rooted in the experiences of the German people. The implementation of key Nazi foreign and racial policy effectively sucked the world into the cataclysmic vortex of War for a second time.! ! The experiences of the Weimar Republic during the ‘democratic experiment’ built a strong
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symbolism‚ post-Impressionism and Fauvism—were not universally appreciated. The majority of people in Germany‚ as elsewhere‚ did not care for the new art which many resented as elitist‚ morally suspect‚ and too often incomprehensible.[2] Under the Weimar government of the 1920s‚ Germany emerged as a leading center of the avant-garde—the birthplace of Expressionism in painting and sculpture‚ of the atonal musical compositions of Arnold Schoenberg‚ and the jazz-influenced work of Paul Hindemith and
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the growth in Nazi support was because it weakened the Weimar government. The Weimar government was unable to solve the issue of unemployment which caused many Germans to lose faith in the Weimar government. The government was more scared of what would happen if there was another period of inflation than it was of unemployment. So instead the Chancellor raised taxes‚ reduced unemployment benefit and cut wages. These policies made the Weimar government very unpopular amongst the German people. These
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unemployed. Over six million Germans were out of work. * Democratic States after the War * Germany: The imperial Germany of William II had come to an end in 1918 with Germanys’ defeat in war. A German democratic state known as the Weimar republic was then created. * France: The popular front started a program. The French new deal gave workers the right to collective bargaining. * Great Britain: Political leaders in Britain largely ignored the new ideas of a British economist‚ John
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conclusion‚ the German people faced an inherent complication: what was to be the future of Germany? Democracy was a paltry response to such a climactic part of history. The Weimar Republic not only deteriorated the already feeble nation‚ but became a mixing pot for the future of the Third Reich. Once the previous leaders of the Weimar Republic conceded defeat‚ Adolf Hitler rose in his ranks until he accepted his position as Führer on August 1st‚ 1921 for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. They
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Weakness of the existing Weimar Government while another one was World War One. In this essay we will examine which factor played a greater pivotal factor. The stand of this essay is that the World War was a greater factor to blame for the rise of power of Hitler as compared to the weakness of the existing regime. This is as the after effects of World War I had highlighted the weaknesses of the Weimar government thus showing how inefficient they were showing the populus that the Weimar Government was not
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during hyperinflation? Hyperinflation is when a country experiences a large increase in prices and there becomes an imbalance in the supply and demand for money‚ causing the concept of inflation to be meaningless. The hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic was a 3 year period of hyperinflation in Germany‚ between June 1921 and January 1924. It was caused by the extremely rapid growth in the supply of paper money. It was almost like a form of taxation‚ as Germany was struggling for money at this
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The Dawes Plan of 1924 The Dawes Plan of 1924 was formulated to take Weimar Germany out of hyperinflation and to return Weimar’s economy to some form of stability. The Dawes Plan got its name as the man who headed the committee was an American called Charles Dawes. The Treaty of Versailles had imposed huge reparation payments on Weimar Germany to pay for the damage caused by World War One. It soon became clear that Weimar Germany was simply incapable of paying out the instalments required by
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