![]() The Weimar system allowed this to happen. Hitler was watching the growing instability in Germany and then decided to take over power by force in Bavaria, but he failed.After the Munich Putsch in 1923 he decided to take over power legally. Therefore there is a direct link between Wall Street Crash and Fear of Communism. After 1929 it became an issue because poverty loomed again. However this would not have been an issue if prosperity had continued as the rich wouldn’t have feared anything and not have supported Hitler. ![]() This is important as they gave him money to spread his message and produce propaganda to reinforce that message. To stop the communist being elected him Hitler set fire to the Reichstag and blamed it on the communists.Also the rich people supported Hitler, as he was very outspoken against communism. However after the Wall Street Crash people had no money and were declining into poverty, they started turning to extremists such as the Communists and Nazis. In the early 1920s when people were better off the Weimar republic entered a period of stability. This coup was unsuccessful but it just showed how instable the government was at that time. In Broman’s book he says “The weakness of the Weimar Republic was obvious.There were too many political parties and they were unable to form an enduring majority in the Reichstag that could back a stable government” In 1919 there was a Spartacist coup. The perfect democracy and the chaos and disruption caused by the Wall Street Crash gave Hitler his opportunity and are therefore an important cause, but links with Germany losing the war and the reparation bill for without the war reparations would never have had to be paid but without the reparations the Wall Street Crash would not have been so catastrophic for Germany. The second flaw was the voting system of proportional representation, which allowed coalition governments.Hitler never had a clear majority but he came to power in a situation where no one could control the Reichstag. ![]() Hitler then said that Germany was going through a crisis and everything is an emergency. The first was article 48 which allowed a chancellor to rule without parliament if he thought the situation was an emergency. There were also two flaws with the Weimar constitution. Britain had a democracy for over 300 years but there was still need for a national government. The Wall Street Crash rocked all democracies but the fledgling Weimar Republic had no chance of survival. This shows that one reason cannot be singled out as they all inter-twine. In the 1920s the Weimar Republic was coping fairly well but in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash the German people again lost hope and turned to extremist. The Weimar republic formed in 1919 after the abdication of the German Kaiser had to sign the treaty. Hatred of the Weimar Republic is also a factor in Hitler’s rise to power and its eventual collapse gave Hitler his opportunity. However if the Wall Street Crash did not happened then the German democracy would have had a better chance of surviving.Hitler certainly used the hatred of the treaty as a tool to gain power. ” The Treaty Of Versailles is an important cause because if Germany had not been so dependant on America then the Wall Street crash would not have been so catastrophic. It must be cancelled, the land which it took away must be returned and France must be destroyed. Lee says, “First the Nazis revived talk of the Stab In The Back of 1918 and betrayal through the treaty of Versailles in 1919″ Hitler said, ” The peace treaty which Germany signed is unfair. Hitler then bought back the hatred of the Treaty of Versailles and blamed the people who signed it for Germanys problems.S. The Weimar republic collapsed and Hitler gained popularity. This was too much for the German people to bear. The Germans disliked the treaty for many reason such as the guilt clause, disarmament and the loss of their land.However in the peaceful years of the 1920s things were quieting down with Strasemann in power, the Dawes plan in 1924, Germany joining the League of Nations in 1926 and the Locarno agreement in 1925 all meant that Germany society was settling down, but was it really? In 1929 with the Wall Street crash Germany has to pay back the loan, which the Dawes plan had provided.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |