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Weimar and Nazi Germany - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Rentenmark
        
        New currency replaced the German mark
        
        Issued from the Rentenbank in 1923
        
        Value of new currency maintained
        
        Supply tightly controlled
        
        Value tied to the price of gold and German industrie
        
        Encouraged public confidence = more spending
        
        1924: Reichsbank given control and renamed Reichsmark
        
        Hyperinflation was ended
    - - Reparations reduced to £50 million a year
        
        More manageable
      - US banks agree to lend money to German industry
        
        Allies felt more confident German reparations would be repaid
        
        Investments stimulated economic growth
    - - Reparations reduced (from £6.6 billion) to £2 billion
        
        As a result, lower taxes for German people
      - Payments extended until 1988
    - - Wages increased so workers spent more
      - French troops pulled out of the Ruhr. Industrial output was resumed
      - Less strikes
      - German factories used new machinery and assembly techniques to improve industrial production
  - - - Nazis placed political opponents in camps
    - - Judges were often right-wing and favoured the Nazis
      - Judges had to belong to the National Socialist League for the Maintenance of the Law
        
        Hitler had control of the legal system
      - Trial by jury abolished - only the judge
      - People's Court
        
        Held in secret and judges hand picked
        
        Limited evidence was needed
        
        Used for all treason cases
    - - Wore plain clothes and spied on people
      - Prosecuted any opponents to the regime
        
        Allowed Hitler to create a police state
      - Able to torture suspects and send them to concentration camps
    - - Spied on opponents of the Nazi party
      - Instilled fear in the German public - no one opposed Hitler
    - - Reich cabinet could pass laws
      - New laws could override the constitution
      - Hitler would propose the laws
      - Local Government
        
        Closed down and reorganised with Nazi majorities
        
        Abolished in 1934
      - Trade Unions
        
        Replaced with the German Labour Front
        
        Many union officials were arrested
      - Other political parties
        
        SDP and Communist Party offices and funds were taken by the Nazis
        
        Banned by July 1933
        
        Hitler created a one-party state