1. Was The Weimar Republic Doomed To Fail?
... and assessed to see if this was inevitable. The Weimar Republic had a troubled birth. It was associated with defeat in the war and the extreme-right accused it of organising strikes in 1917 - 1918, which deprived the German armed forces of vital supplies during the First World ... , mines and colonies. This obviously left Germany much poorer and a reparation bill of £6.6 billion was also owed from the amount of destruction in the war. When some payments were late, the French and Belgian army invaded the Ruhr in 1923 and also a national strike and the hyper-inflation brought Weimar to the...
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