Why did the Germans blame the Weimar Republic and not Wilhelm?
Joseph did a pretty good job of listing events but didn’t really answer the question. He should have also pointed out that Ebert was the first President of the Republic followed by Hindenburg. The President choses the Chancellor which was Hitler in 1932. That year is important. That means that a decade passed between the creation of the Republic and the rise of Hitler. Why blame Weimar? The German Army was not defeated on the battlefield. The politicians ended the war because it just couldn’t be won and the sailors revolt made this point. They were ordered to commit themselves to a suicide attack for no apparent reason so they walked off the job. The Weimar Republic was seen as the signer of the Treaty of Versailles which castrated Germany. This was not really true. A coalition government signed the treaty and the allies gave Germany two weeks to make up their minds or hostilities would start again. The German Army was already losing men who just left to go home. They couldn’t go back
