To begin with the gaps between the living standards of different classes grew significantly through the years which meant that German workers bitter at restrictions placed on their earnings during the war which meant that every time they woke up another fortune was lost, in the blink of an eye. This was deemed unfair because factory owners made vast fortunes from the war by manufacturing suits, armour and weapons for the soldiers to use on the front line. Women were called up to work in factories alongside men during the war to meet the demands of the commanders. In the opinion of the people this was damaging traditional family values and society as a whole. As a result of the world war, class differences revealed themselves more distinctly than in preindustrial times and thereby strengthened the role of the industrial bourgeoisie. On the other hand, the government was neither prepared nor in a position to compensate for these financial burdens, such as trade-union participation in war-related economic decisions and the setting of priorities. In the 1920s the industrial production and the gross national product per capita barely exceeded the level before 1914. A statistical average contributes little to a description of the economic development and its consequences for the social and political history of the period. Historically more significant was the hectic sequence of critical disturbances …show more content…
There was potential for the reintroduction of a monarch, or even a communist state to aid Germany to become the strong, well known country it was before. The public blamed their problems on the Treaty of Versailles, and in turn, blamed the government that signed it. The new government had inherited a difficult situation. It was unavoidable that the new government would have faced difficulties from the start. The Weimar Republic was beginning to overcome its difficulties during the mid 1920 's as economic, political, and cultural improvements were occurring. These circumstances gave the extremists, the Nazi 's, an opportunity to upgrade themselves as the people searched for a more exceptional solution to the depression. It was not evident that the republic was doomed from the start but it was indisputable that the republic was doomed from around 1930, when the country was splitting into two groups, left and right, who both wanted an end to the republic and a change to another political system, communist or