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1.        Ineffective Constitution

The Weimar Constitution did not create a strong government:

1. Article 48 of the constitution gave the President sole power in ‘times of emergency’ – something he took often.

2. The German states had too much power and often ignored the government.

2.        Left-wing Rebellions

The Communist KPD hated the new government:

1. In Jan 1919, 50,000 Spartacists rebelled in Berlin, led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Leibknecht.

2. In 1919, Communist Workers’ Councils seized power all over Germany, and a Communist ‘People’s Government’ took power in Bavaria.

3.        Right-wing terrorism

Many right-wing groups hated the new government for signing the Versailles Treaty (June 1919):

1. The Kapp Putsch: in March 1920, a Freikorps brigade rebelled against the Treaty, led by Dr Wolfgang Kapp.   It took over Berlin and tried to bring back the Kaiser.

2. Nationalist terrorist groups murdered 356 politicians. In 1922, they assassinated Walter Rathenau, the SPD foreign minister, because he made a treaty with Russia.

4.        Invasion–Inflation: the crisis of 1923

The cause of the trouble was Reparations – the government paid them by printing more money, causing inflation.   In January 1923, Germany failed to make a payment, and France invaded the Ruhr.   This humiliated the government, which ordered a general strike, and paid the strikers by printing more money, causing hyperinflation:

1. In Berlin on 1 October 1923, soldiers calling themselves Black Reichswehr rebelled, led by Bruno Buchrucker.

2. The Rhineland declared independence (21–22 October).

3. In Saxony and Thuringia the Communists took power.

http://www.markedbyteachers.com/gcse/history/what-problems-did-the-weimar-republic-face-from-1919-to-1923-and-why-did-it-survive.html

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Adolf Hitler's rise to power began in Germany in September 1919 when Hitler joined the political party known as the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei – DAP (German Workers' Party).  The name was changed in 1920 to the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party).

Adolf Hitler rose to a place of prominence in the early years of the party. Being one of the best speakers of the party, he told the other members to either make him leader of the party or he would never return. He was aided in part by his willingness to use violence in advancing his political objectives and to recruit party members who were willing to do the same.  The Nazis gathered enough electoral support to become the largest political party in the Reichstag, and Hitler's blend of political acuity, deceptiveness and cunning converted the party's non-majority but plurality status into effective governing power in the ailing Weimar Republic of 1933.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_rise_to_power

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Anti-communism. In Hitler's mind, communism was a major enemy of Germany, an enemy he often mentions in Mein Kampf. During the trial for his involvement in the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler claimed that his singular goal was to assist the German government in "fighting Marxism".

This document clearly identifies three fundamental principles that were to underpin Nazi ideology and policy for the next twenty-five years:

‘We demand equality of rights for the German people in respect to the other nations; abrogation of the peace treaties of Versailles and St Germain [between the Allies and Austria].

We demand land and territory (colonies) for the sustenance of our people, and colonization for our surplus population.

Only a member of the race can be a citizen. A member of the race can only be one who is of German blood, without consideration of creed. Consequently no Jew can be a member of the race.’

http://time.com/4282048/1920-hitler-political-platform/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_Adolf_Hitler

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Hitler has four main ideas in his economic policies.

1. Full employment -During 1939, almost no one has no job, because of the idea of everyone needs to work.

2. Beauty of Work -The SdA (Beauty of Work), shows that work was good, that everyone should work .

3. Re-armament begun in 1935 - the idea of 'guns before butter'. This means that they should prioritize military than civilian goods.

4. Autarky - an unsuccessful attempt at making Germany self-sufficient.

The good life in Nazi Germany

Despite the loss of political and religious freedom, life improved in Germany for many ordinary people

Germany became a safer place, transportation improved, Nazis sot up KdF or strength through joy, which gives rewards for working. Germany liked the public works, Nazi youth groups created holidays and  activities to others.

How Hitler increased employment

Hitler introduced many policies to fulfill
his goal of full employment:

Instead of paying the reparations they  HItler focused on German companies.

public works- including planting forests, and building hospitals and schools. He also built public buildings such as the 1936 Olympic Stadium.

Rearmament -created jobs in the armaments industry.

National service meant all young men spent six months in the RAD [RAD: The labour service in which young men in Germany had to do a six-month compulsory stint. ]

Many Jews and women were unemployed.

Sources:
-http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/germany/economicrev_print.shtml

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Hitler’s policy of “Gleichschaltung” or forcible coordination, amounted to nothing less than a massive, state-wide program of thought control, whereby the complete ideological coordination of all political, social, and cultural activities would ensure that every element of German life would become part of the National Socialist machine under Hitler’s illustrious leadership.

References to music, history, philosophy, and art formed a key part of the Nazi strategy to reverse the symptoms of decline perceived after World War I. Hitler presented himself not only as a ‘man of the people’ and a soldier with frontline experience but also and above all as a man whose artistic experience constituted the best guarantee of his ability to mediate the collective spirit of the people, and turn it into the ‘perfect Third Reich. The revival of a culturally rich Germany as the so-called Third Reich, however, would be achieved only once those whom the Nazis considered its enemies were all destroyed. So war and culture went together in the National Socialist agenda. "Art," said Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, “is no mere peacetime amusement, but a sharp spiritual weapon for war.”

Beginning in September 1933, a Reich Culture Chamber (composed of the Reich Film Chamber, Reich Music Chamber, Reich Theater Chamber, Reich Press Chamber, Reich Writing Chamber, Reich Chamber for Fine Arts, and the Reich Radio Chamber) supervised and regulated all facets of German culture. Nazi aesthetics emphasized the propagandistic value of art and glorified the peasantry, the "Aryan," and the heroism of war. This ideology stood in stark contrast to modern, innovative art, such as abstract painting, denounced as "Degenerate Art," as well as "art bolshevism" and "culture bolshevism."

http://holocaustonline.org/culture/nazi-art-culture-policy/
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/culture-in-the-third-reich-overview

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The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered six million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.

Germany implemented the persecution in stages. Following Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the government passed laws to exclude Jews from civil society, most prominently the Nuremberg Laws in 1935. Starting in 1933, the Nazis built a network of concentration camps in Germany for political opponents and people deemed "undesirable". After the invasion of Poland in 1939, the regime set up ghettos to segregate Jews. Over 42,000 camps, ghettos, and other detention sites were established.