WHY DID THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC COLLAPSE?

Nazis Strengths and successes

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International factors

Popular and appealing policies

Great depression

Weimar weaknesses and mistakes

Article 48

whole world in an economic crisis

Germany had borrowed a lot of money to pay reparations (dawes & young plan)

40% of industrial workers were unemployed

extreme situation = extreme solution

industrialists terrified of communists, poured money on the Nazis

unemployed people were promised work, freedom and bread

extreme measures (epecially by bruning) were being accomplished under the protection of article 48

proportional representation

created weak and indecisive coalition governments

constitutional defects

There were at least four fatal defects in the Weimar Constitution. All of them were used to destroy the Weimar Republic, but all of them could have been corrected.

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policies violently opposed communism - people were scared of communism

hatred towards communists

propaganda