Reasons For The Fall Of The Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic was created to end World War 1 because the Allie’s would have never agreed to sign a peace treaty with the Monarch that rules Germany at the time. It was the first time that Germany was never ruled by a democratic government until now and the situation that the Weimar Republic was formed under made it an uneasy system. People sometimes think that the reason the Weimar Republic fell was because of Hitler and the Nazi party however it was just a simple matter of cause-and-effect. The Weimar Republic fell because of the several conflicts between each political party and their different ideals, inevitable series of events that would devastate the Republic through civil unrest which ended up of the people looking to extreme right winged parties to save the country that led to the rise of the right wing parties and saw the fall of the Weimar Republic.
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With a lot of diversity in the Reichstag and coalitions needed to pass legislations which would end up causing even more conflict in the Reichstag that would lead the fall of the Weimar system. When the Great Depression occurred in Germany the people started to lose hope in the mainstream democratic system and began to vote for more radical right wing parties such as the Nazi Party. Hitler took advantage of the Weimar Republic’s weakness and the people’s desperation and used it to climb in power which resulted in him becoming the chancellor and destroying the Weimar Republic since a extreme right wing party was in charge which is the opposite of the initial intentions of the Weimar Republic. All of these events evolved around the occurrence of the events that would weaken the Weimar system and allow Hitler and his Nazi Party to take advantage of these events to overthrow the Weimar