"parties on the left were strong supporters of progressive taxation, government social welfare programs, labor unions, equality and economic opportunity for women"

"parties on the right were strongly nationalistic and supported large military. They were opposed to social welfare programs, labour unions and progressive taxation"

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sell sex in Germany without police oversight.

Homosexuality or "sodomy" was almost legalised in Weimar Germany, far earlier than any other nations

ply shadowed lighting, distorted perspective and intentionally artificial sets.
German expressionism.
Different From Others- first pro gay film
Use of shadows prominent
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari-Classic, first twist ending. first horror film
Nosferatu- first vampire film
Sex in chains- heavily sexual film
Low budgets meant directors had to experiment
Darker films, horror, crime
Very experimental
Decadent shadows
Sexual, artistic, social freedom
Ufa-state run film studio that oversaw nearly all the films during the period.
Earliest known animated film-The Adventures of Prince Achmed
United states more interested in making profits while Germany more interested in pushing the boundaries of art style.

The design and implementation began in 1918 with the resignation of the Kaiser and the collapse of the German Monarchy. The new government was headed by the Chancellor Ebert and the Social Democratic Party (SPD). The new Constitution reflected their own, liberal, political values. Although Ebert and his government were socialists, the SPD favoured a progressive and transition period, rather than rushing radical change. 

This change in Germany society, and government, was also designed to help Germany in the peace talks, showing that they were transforming into a representative democracy, would help demonstrate to the Allies could see genuine and lasting signs of political reform. If they could do this and prove this was working, Germany would have fared better in the upcoming peace treaty. 

Only a few days after the suppression of Spartacist Uprising in Berlin, Ebert and his cabinet convened elections for a national assembly, tasked with formulating their new political system. The SPD returned the most amount of votes of any single party. Other parties with significant representation was the Catholic Centre Party, the liberal German Democratic Party, and the right-wing German National People’s Party (listed in decreasing amount of representation). Because there were still threats in Berlin, the national assembly met in the town of Weimar, which ended up lending it’s name to the new era in German History. Within a week the SPD had created a coalition government with the other liberal and left-wing parties. This is something that would later prove to be apart of the Weimar Republic’s downfall. 

If the government's system was set up as a Preferential System, which is what Australia has to elect MPs, AND the Proportional System, which is what is was and what Australia has in the Senate, would have allowed the government to have a majority and be able to have more power in the Government. meaning they could pass more legislation.

The Spartacist Uprising, was a revolution against the German, Chancellor Ebert and his cabinet, government led by communists wanting to re-create the Russian Revolution in 1917, only two years previous.  A strike of 55 000 workers led to violent attacks and the newspaper and communication buildings being seized. 100 workers were killed by former-soldiers, known as the Freikorps, who were known for hating the communists. 

Because of what later became known as the Bloody Week, the communists and much of Germany’s working class developed a hatred for the Social Democrats. When Weimar Germanys power was threatened by the rising popularity of the Nazi Party, both the communists and socialists could not put aside their differences to beat the growing threat to both their livelihoods. 

The National Assembly convened for almost 18 months. During this time two things were achieved that shaped the future of the Weimar Republic; the drafting of the Weimar Constitution and the ratification of The Treaty of Versailles. Neither of things had a high approval rating with the German people. 

- Innovations in Weimar art were shaped in part by the social and economic conditions in post-war Germany

- Weimar artists incorporated their own ideas that reflected the conditions and attitudes of the time

- Weimar art was political 

- Some of Otto Dix’s art was influenced by his experience as a solider in WW1

- Weimar artists rejected traditional art styles

- A lot of the art was bold, colourful and chaotic

First crisis, exclusive to Weimar, was caused by the reparations asked of Germany by the Treaty of Versailles

Economy destined to fail should Germany lose the First World War, as the monarchy funded the war by borrowing as opposed to income tax, as France and Britain did

Germany found it difficult to muster currency to pay reparations, which where required by the Treaty to be paid regularly in paper money, not raw materials or gold

Unable to secure loans, Weimar printed excessive currency to pay back, leading to mass inflation, requiring four years work by the German National Bank (Reichsbank) to stabilise the currency

Stabilisation attributed to the introduction of a new German Rentenmark (Rent-mark) in August 1923, which was tied to housing and grain prices, planned by Hjalmar Schacht

Previous efforts to stabilise included government-only bills tied to gold price, used to fund public works, which allowed the government to function once more

Overall the first economic crisis was an absolute disaster, seeing the total amount of German Papermarks in circulation reach 1.2 Sextillion (1, 200,000,000,000,000,000,000) marks, however the stabilisation of the mark by early 1924, and the use of raw material and locally printed currency led to an increase in German industry that began the Weimar Golden age, which lasted until the next crisis in 1929, the timing of the stabilisation of the mark can be attributed to as a key reason Hitler’s ‘Beer-hall Putsch’ failed, as by November the people’s confidence in the government had been restored
The Great Depression, which affected much of the world, began in 1929, with the Wall Street Crash, collapsing the world economy. The Depression struck Germany intensely by 1931, the Reichsbank losing 150 million marks in two day in June

Financial experts who worked for the Reichsbank during the previous crisis attempted to fix the new crisis, but the Depression didn’t entirely resolve itself until 1954, after much change across the globe.

With no end in sight, the German people radicalised, moving further right and left as the political centre failed them

Hitler, using intimidation, propaganda and a fabricated communist plot to torch the Reichstag (parliament), installed himself as ‘Fuhrer’ of Germany

The German economy was reshaped from a market one to a corporatist one, the collaboration of business and manufacturing with the dominant autocrat to increase productivity at the expense of political freedom. Military spending, wage cuts and discouraging workers rights stabilised the German economy, seeing near complete employment for all ‘Aryan’ men, at the cost of most female and all non-German employees except for those placed into forced labour

Göttingen was the centre of research in aero- and fluid-dynamics in the early 20th century. Mathematical aerodynamics was founded by Ludwig Prandtlbefore World War I, and the work continued at Göttingen until interfered with in the 1930s and prohibited in the late 1940s. It was there that compressibility drag and its reduction in aircraft was first understood. A striking example of this is the Messerschmitt Me 262, which was designed in 1939, but resembles a modern jet transport more that it did other tactical aircraft of its time.

Albert Einstein rose to public prominence during his years in Berlin, being awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. He was forced to flee Germany and the Nazi regime in 1933.

Physician Magnus Hirschfeld established the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexology) in 1919, and it remained open until 1933. Hirschfeld believed that an understanding of homosexuality could be arrived at through science. Hirschfeld was a vocal advocate for homosexual, bisexual, and transgender legal rights for men and women, repeatedly petitioning parliament for legal changes. His Institute also included a museum. The Institute, museum and the Institute's library and archives were all destroyed by the Nazi regime in 1933.-K