... funds. However, upon losing the war, Germany could not pay back the loans or the reparations. As well, as this, the Treaty Of Versailles inflicted another financial burden by the loss of German territories. These included the important industrial areas of the Saar coal fields and Alsace-Lorraine. This meant that it would be much more difficult to regain funds to ... though there was a recovery period. The huge problems faced by Germany simply did not allow for democracy to be instated and continue to function. Particularly, the economic problems caused a general loss of confidence in We...

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... been defeated fairly but had been stabbed in the back by the politicians. There was certainly enough in the Treaty to ensure continued opposition to those who signed it. The loss of territory and people was a source of outrage. As well as loosing all its colonies, many Germans were trapped by new territorial changes which had created Poland and Czechoslovakia. This ... meant that Germany lost 13.5% of its land and 12.5% of its population. The loss of farms, factories, mines and colonies left Germany very much poorer. The disarming of Germany was seen both as an insult to German military...

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... years leading up to the revolutions were years of dismay. Crops failed in the German states and other parts of Europe. A terrible cholera epidemic broke out in 1848, "causing such loss of life that for a while life in many areas was totally disorganised". "Thus the time was ripe for a radical change to upset the old order of things". Demonstrations and public ... ...

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