The great depression is regarded as one of the world’s most catastrophic tragedies which affected a lot of countries around the world one of these would be Germany. It would be just an assumption to say that the great depression was the event which collapsed the Weimar republic when there were defiantly more events which triggered its collapse. The great depression did have a huge impact on Germany as a country but mainly as a regrowing society from the loss of world war one. The downfall of the Weimar republic can be described as being a catastrophic incident waiting to happen a failure of some sorts because you could see that Germany was being run off unbalanced and weak foundations. The depression wasn’t the only thing destroying the Weimar
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Since the loans have stopped coming in from the US German workers started to lose their jobs. In January 1928 just before the Wall Street crash and the depression had started Germanys unemployment rate was at a massive 1620000 people who were out of work or unemployed. Although by 1930 a year into the depression the numbers of unemployment rose to 32180000 people without work or unemployed. Before the depression Germanys numbers were at a high for unemployment but since the depression in has tripled in under a year. Germany were in such a bad place with their finances before the depression and that was because of the war and this also showed that Weimar’s reputation was on the verge of failing. The Weimar Government attempted to try and resolve the unemployment problem. They tried cutting down wages, salaries and prices to regain control of their finances and gain confidence with it again in the industrial companies. This was coordinated by Heinrich Brunning and his efforts were unsuccessful and also ineffective. In 1931, 4.5 million people were out of work and unemployed and this showed that Weimar Germany had a lack of ability to be able to deal with crisis’s which then will lead to the Weimar governments fall from …show more content…
This treaty was put into place because of the loss of the Great War and it helped in which every other country got to demand and control Germany. This meant that Germany were stuck with the war guilt and also having 6 billion dollars’ worth or respirations to pay back to France. Economic uncertainty was a big factor when talking about the collapse of the Weimar Government. Before the war had ended Germany announced that they had an inflation problem which meant that there money was worth nothing. Germany were in immense debt because of the funding of the war of 150 million marks. Germany as well had to pay the war reparations and in the end it topped of the foundations of the Weimar republic. In 1922 Germany released that they had no way of repaying there repayments to the countries. Due to taxation Germany were forced to raise prices on everything from a loaf of breed. This also meant that students, pensioners and most people with investments had to lose of all their money. This annihilated the Weimar Government and turned there popularity to an all-time low and allowed other parties to start making the final stretch to
Since the loans have stopped coming in from the US German workers started to lose their jobs. In January 1928 just before the Wall Street crash and the depression had started Germanys unemployment rate was at a massive 1620000 people who were out of work or unemployed. Although by 1930 a year into the depression the numbers of unemployment rose to 32180000 people without work or unemployed. Before the depression Germanys numbers were at a high for unemployment but since the depression in has tripled in under a year. Germany were in such a bad place with their finances before the depression and that was because of the war and this also showed that Weimar’s reputation was on the verge of failing. The Weimar Government attempted to try and resolve the unemployment problem. They tried cutting down wages, salaries and prices to regain control of their finances and gain confidence with it again in the industrial companies. This was coordinated by Heinrich Brunning and his efforts were unsuccessful and also ineffective. In 1931, 4.5 million people were out of work and unemployed and this showed that Weimar Germany had a lack of ability to be able to deal with crisis’s which then will lead to the Weimar governments fall from …show more content…
This treaty was put into place because of the loss of the Great War and it helped in which every other country got to demand and control Germany. This meant that Germany were stuck with the war guilt and also having 6 billion dollars’ worth or respirations to pay back to France. Economic uncertainty was a big factor when talking about the collapse of the Weimar Government. Before the war had ended Germany announced that they had an inflation problem which meant that there money was worth nothing. Germany were in immense debt because of the funding of the war of 150 million marks. Germany as well had to pay the war reparations and in the end it topped of the foundations of the Weimar republic. In 1922 Germany released that they had no way of repaying there repayments to the countries. Due to taxation Germany were forced to raise prices on everything from a loaf of breed. This also meant that students, pensioners and most people with investments had to lose of all their money. This annihilated the Weimar Government and turned there popularity to an all-time low and allowed other parties to start making the final stretch to