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Title: Nazi beliefs about, and policies towards, Weimar politics and society up to 1929


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Nazi beliefs about, and policies towards, Weimar
politics and society (up to 1929)
  • OVERVIEW

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Section 1 Weimar Democracy
  • Democracy essentially un-German
  • Nazis despised
  • The chaotic party system (30 parties)
  • Lack of strong leadership
  • Nazis saw opportunities
  • Article 48 Emergency Powers
  • Proportional representation
  • Survival in the balance
  • Political extremism
  • Economic problems

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Section 2 Versailles Settlement
  • Stab in the Back November Criminals
  • Territory
  • Disarmament
  • War guilt Article 231
  • Reparations
  • Military occupation (Rhineland and Ruhr)

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Section 3 Economic Crisis to 1924
  • Hyperinflation causes? (long- / short-term)
  • Who gained / who lost?
  • Which socio-economic groups turned to extremist
    parties (only modestly at this stage)
  • Middle classes look to Right
  • Rural Germany (esp. NW) as above
  • Workers turned to the political Left
  • Some poorer Germans did well out of hyperinfl.

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Section 4 Stresemans Foreign Policy
  • Dawes Plan Locarno Pact League of Nations
    Treaty of Berlin Kellogg-Briand Pact Young
    Plan.
  • Nazi reaction?
  • Anti-Young Plan Campaign
  • Freedom Law referendum right-wing coalition
    manages only 14, but support for Nazis grows in
    1930 elections (Thuringia over 11)

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Section 5 Economic Recovery to 1929?
  • How secure was the German boom?
  • Problems-
  • Agriculture
  • Unemployment
  • Loans
  • Balance of trade deficit
  • Cost of wages and welfare
  • Industrial production after 1927 (recession)
  • Consequences for Nazi socio-economic support?

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Section 6 Cultural Experimentation
  • Nazis traditional values
  • Popular opinion tended to agree
  • Nazis campaigned against pornography female
    emancipation birth control homosexuality etc.
  • Cultural changes-
  • Literature
  • Music, dance and cabaret
  • Art, theatre and opera
  • Radio
  • Americanisation
  • For many Germans, symbolised what was wrong
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