Section 2: The Weimar Republic
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- Section 2: The Weimar Republic
- Initial troubles: 1919-1923
- political threats to the Republic
- Right Wing threats
- Organisation consul
- Responsible for at least 354 political murders
- The Freikorps
- Institutional bias
- Judiciary
- Hitler only sentenced to 5 years
- Only 1 of 705 soldiers prosecuted for Kapp Putsch found guilty
- Judiciary
- The Kapp Putsch 1920
- The Munich Putsch 1923
- Organisation consul
- Left Wing threats
- Spartacists
- January 1919 Berlin upsrising
- KPD
- Usually polled around 10% in Reichstag elections
- Bavaria
- Creation of Soviet Republic 1919
- Ruhr
- Formation of Ruhr Army 1920
- Spartacists
- Right Wing threats
- The Hyperinflation crisis 1923
- Hit the middle classes the hardest
- caused by the flood of new paper money on top of the general strike
- New currency 'Rentenmark' replaced old Reichsmark
- political threats to the Republic
- The Constitution
- President
- elected every 7 years
- Power to appoint and dismiss chancellor.
- Commanded the army
- In an emergency could issue laws by decree (article 48)
- Commanded the army
- Power to appoint and dismiss chancellor.
- elected every 7 years
- Reichstag
- Elected by all Germans over 20
- Deputies elected by proportional representation
- Elected by all Germans over 20
- Chancellor
- Had to have the confidence of the Reichstag
- Proposed laws to the Riechstag
- Had to have the confidence of the Reichstag
- President
- The Golden Years (24-28)
- Characterised by growing economy and a decrease in civil unrest
- Votes for extremist parties decreased
- NSDAP only got 2.6% in 1928
- Industrial production boomed
- exports increased by 40% by 1928
- Influx of foreign capital
- Initial troubles: 1919-1923
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