What was the Weimar Republic and why did the government which was a democracy 1918-33 end with dictatorship and Nazism?
From the inception in1919 the democratic Weimar republic faced serious economic problems, foremost among them staggering reparations payments demanded by victorious powers after the Great War of 1914 to 1918, and set forth in the Treaty of Versailles. With crash of the stock market in 1929, business failures and unemployment reached unprecedented levels. Arguments in the Reichstag led to virtual paralysis of Germany’s political decision-making process. Hitler campaigned tirelessly vowing a change and to restore Germany’s pride and prosperity.
