Then students should meet in pro and con teams and decide on the their best arguments. Finally, the class should hold a debate. Encarta: History of Germany. Wikipedia: History of Germany. Columbia Encyclopedia: Germany. Infoplease: German History. Virtual Library: German History. Map Collection of Germany Historical maps. Google Directory: History of Germany. Open Directory Project: History of Germany.
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Financial panics and bank failures slow crept around the world. The repercussions were felt around the globe and especially in Germany. The United States could no longer provide the loans that the Weimar Republic needed. Furthermore, global trade almost came to a standstill, and many Germans became unemployed. One in three Germans were unemployed at the height of the economic crisis, and poverty and hunger were widespread.
The Republic was in the grip of an economic and social crisis. In , the conservatives won the election. Chancellor Brunning embarked on a series of disastrous economic and political policies. Furthermore, Brunning discarded the Constitution and ruled by Presidential decree to manage the country's socio-economic conditions. The Great Recession and Brunning's response led many people to become disillusioned with the Republic and even democracy. As the effects of the Great Depression continued, there was a revival in the extremist parties in Germany.
The Communist Party received approximately one-quarter of the popular vote, and its supports controlled many working-class neighborhoods in urban centers. The right-wing National Socialist Party also won support, and in the election, they received almost one-third of the vote. Many conservatives were worried about the specter of a Communist revolution.
President Hindenburg and his allies offered the Chancellorship to Adolf Hitler as part of a strategy to keep the Communists out of power. Hitler began to assume more and more power and suspended the Weimar Republic's Constitution, and it was effectively dead.
The Weimar Republic was born out of war and revolution. It was difficult for one party to gain a majority so the country was run by a series of coalitions governments led by different parties working together. The result was:. The German people had no tradition of parliamentary democracy — there was no general support for the new republic.
By the time Hitler became Chancellor in January , one in three Germans were unemployed, with the figure hitting 6. Industrial production had also more than halved over the same period. When people are unemployed, hungry and desperate, as millions were in Germany between and , they often turn to extreme political parties offering simple solutions to their problems.
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