When it was clear that the First World War was well and truly lost, the military elite of the Second Reich decided that the victorious allies would be much more sympathetic to a democratic government when writing what would be the Treaty Of Versailles. This new government was set up by the writing of a completely new democratic constitution. It was written in the German city of Weimar, which gave the new republic it’s name. This republic was one born out of defeat and humiliation as the Kaiser abdicated and fled to Holland and the problems did not stop there. In fact, the entire period of 1919 to 1923 is known as a crisis period for Germany and indeed, the republic only lasted until 1933.

However, there are strengths in the Weimar republic and it’s constitution. This must have been true as all the attempted revolutions and coups were eventually suppressed and Hitler only eventually toppled the regime through legal methods. As well as this, the opposition to Weimar was not as well organised as the government. This was particularly true of opposition from the left wing. Only in Bavaria did the communists gain control, setting up a republic in March 1919 whic

This general disappointment with the allotted government was the main reason for the many coups and revolution attempts that happened over the first years of the republic. It showed that the regime was certainly unpopular with the German people, particularly compared to the ‘Golden Years’, where there was no major unrest. A further effect of the revolution attempts was the publicity gained by extremists. Hitler in particular was unknown before the Munich Putsch but that, and the subsequent trial gave the NSDP national news coverage, a huge propaganda advantage.

However, the Government was largely blamed for the crisis, regardless of the motive of generating sympathy or the quick recovery. The fact that most Germans suffered greatly due to hyperinflation caused much dissolution with the entire system of Weimar Germany within the German people. At one stage, an egg cost 80 million marks. Although some people managed to benefit from the crisis by paying off debts with inflated currency, such a huge shift in values would have seriously undermined the peoples’ confidence in German economic stability, and therefore the Weimar government.

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