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Assess The Short Term Significance of The Great Depression in 1929 – 1933
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The Great
Depression added to the problems already presented in Germany and there were other
factors which collectively were more significant than the Depression
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I believe that the Weimar
government’s problems accumulated
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Firstly,
the Nazi Party organisation was strong and made the Weimar Republic look weak, the Nazi
party had a strong goal and their goal was to get in to power
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Also, when Hitler went into prison
in 1923 the party fell into disarray, this as a whole changed how the Nazi Party organised
themselves
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Hitler was a strong leader, he reassured people by saying he will ‘preserve
and protect Christianity’, look after the economy; ‘reorganisation of the economy’, reduce
unemployment and have co-operation with other countries
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This speech Hitler made in 1933 would have clearly appealed to the public
because they were in desperate need of change and were eager for the economy to rise
again and for Germany to recover
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It could be said that Hitler’s
speeches gave people scapegoats to blame for Germanys problems
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Hitler made people feel as though everybody
would benefit from the Nazi rule
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In the 1920s right wing critics of the Weimar
Republic made great play of what was called ‘The stab in the back myth’3
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Picture from 1932
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Conservative DNVP election poster from 1924, using the story of ‘the stab in the back’

Germany The stab in the back myth was used to criticise and accuse the Weimar Republic as
being unpatriotic and was used by Ludendorff as a justification to blame anything else but
himself
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He also blames the economic system in Germany at the time
and the fact that Germany were over confident
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In addition to the Weimar Republic being blamed
for the losses of the war, they were also blamed for the problems that stemmed from the
Treaty of Versailles and humiliation of the German public5
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The
Treaty of Versailles affected the Weimar directly because they lost a large army, industries,
weaponry and citizens and lost what could have been a large income from the Ruhr
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Proportional Representation allowed
radical parties such as the Nazis to get off the ground and it could be debated that if
Germanys voting system at the time was First Past the Post the Nazis would not have lifted
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It was the most
severe depression and Germany was indeed hit by it, it encouraged a spectacular worldwide
economic decline
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There is still the argument that considers the depression to be the direct and clear cause of
the Weimar Republics fall and the collapse of democracy
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President Ebert’s address to the Weimar constituent Assembly 1919

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Hitler and Nazism By Dick Geary



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