As said, my history teacher came up with this task. Make the Weimar Republic survive. A quick summary of the points we had on a working sheet:
Reasons for the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
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Reasons for the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
- Foreign Policy, the Treaty of Versailles and his political, economic and psychological aftereffects
- Economic Reasons, the Depression, impoverishment and dissatisfaction of the population
- Constitutional Reasons, the Weimar Constitution had his flaws, the Reichspräsident played the Ersatzkaiser, Artikel 48
- The role of leading politicians, anti-parliamentary aspirations like Hindenburg and his gang
- The labor movement, organizational division, Opposition between SPD & KPD
- The Pro-Republic parties, no stable parliamentary majority and coalition wars
- Left & Right extremism, a radical opponents Community, anti democratic parties like the KPD & NSDAP
- Old Elites, the Military, civil servants, the agrarians, all with conservative/authoritarian values
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