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Saturday, February 23, 2019

Why was the recovery of the Weimar Republic from 1924 to 1929 not actually a great success?

There were many ship canal in which there were problems and the reco genuinely was not really all it seemed to be, historiographer R. Bessel put it nicely, saying that Weimars golden years rested on shaky foundations. Firstly, although there were economic advances there were still problems. There was much inequality in society and rough groups benefited a lot more than than others. Big businesses and landowners gained a lot during this time but peasant farmers, who started overproducing, and some sections of the middle class, e.g. small shop keepers, lost out. Moreover, unemployment rose from 4% in 1923 to 8.2% in 1929. This left some people feeling that the government was not doing enough for them. On the other hand, some employers said that welfare benefits for the hapless should be cut as taxes were too high.Another big underlie problem with this economic recovery was that it was largely as a top of the Dawes Plan i.e. a loan from America. This over-reliance on foreign aid is very dangerous and risky because if something suddenly goes wrong and America called in its loans it could deal disastrous effects on Germany.The politics of Germany was still not in a great state either. In this menses the chancellor changed 4 times and no single political party ever got a majority. This caused an crank government and one that could not make quick decisive decisions as each party had its own view. The parties only managed to stay in merger because of the actions of their leaders. In fact, Gustav Stolper a DDP Reichstag member said that There are no government parties, only opposition parties.Another political problem was that a considerable amount of votes were still going to parties who were opposed to the Republic much(prenominal) as the Communist party, DNVP (German National Peoples Party) and the Nazis e.g. in 1928, 23% of the MPs elected were from either the Communists of Nazis. In this period the Nazis also managed to set themselves up as a respectab le party and Hitler was still working hard to gain support.Stresemanns foreign insurance policy and his attempts to form friendlier relations made some Germans, especially the Nationalists, see him as weak because he was not standing up for Germanys rights eon

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