Answer:
The problems faced by Weimar Republic are
the following:
(i)
The infant Weimar Republic was forced to pay for the sins of the old empire.
The republic carried the burden of war guilt and national humiliation and was
financially crippled by being forced to pay compensation.
(ii)
The Socialists, Catholics and Democrats who supported the Weimer Republic became
easy target of attack in the conservative nationalist circles. They were
mockingly called 'November criminals'.
(iii)
There was revolutionary uprising of the Spartacist League on the pattern of the
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
(iv)
Soviets of workers and sailors were established in many cities. There was
demand for Soviet-style governance. The Weimar Republic crushed the uprising
with the help of a war veterans' organisation called, 'Free Corps'.
(v)
The Spartacists later founded the Communist Party of Germany. Communists and
Scientists henceforth became irreconcilable enemies and could not make common
cause against Hitler.
(vi)
There was economic crisis of 1923. Prices of goods soared. The crisis came to
be known as hyperinflation, a situation when prices rise phenomenally high.
(vii)
Politically too, the Weimar Republic was fragile. System of proportionate representation
and Article 48 which gave President the powers to impose emergency, suspend
civil rights and rule by decree. The Weimer Republic saw twenty different
cabinets lasting on an average 239 days, and a liberal use of Article 48.
GERMANY AFTER THE
VERSAILLES TREATY
EXPANSION OF NAZI
POWER: EUROPE 1942
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