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Answer of Previous Session
D. October to November
HW
2.Birth of the
Weimar Republic
3. The Effects of the War
4. Political
Radicalism and
Economic Crises
1. Introduction
5.The Years of Depression
INDEX
Introduction
❖ Nazism was a system, a structure of ideas about the world and politics.
❖ May 1945 - Germany surrendered to the Allies.
❖ April - Hitler, his propaganda minister Goebbels and his entire family committed suicide.
❖ The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg was set up.
❖ To prosecute Nazi war criminals for Crimes against Peace, for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity.
Second World War
● Germany had waged a genocidal war.
● Resulted in the mass murder of selected groups of innocent civilians of Europe.
● The number of people killed - 6 million Jews, 200,000 Gypsies, 1 million Polish civilians, 70,000 Germans who were considered mentally and physically disabled.
Nazis devised an unprecedented means of killing people:
● By gassing them in various killing centres like Auschwitz.
● The Nuremberg Tribunal sentenced only eleven leading Nazis to death.
● Many others were imprisoned for life.
● The Allies did not want to be as harsh on Germany.
Birth of the Weimar Republic
● Germany - A powerful empire in the early years of the 20th century.
● Fought the First World War (1914-1918) alongside the Austrian empire and against the Allies (England, France and Russia).
● Germany made initial gains by occupying France and Belgium.
● The Allies, strengthened by the US entry in 1917.
● Defeated Germany and the Central Powers in November 1918.
● The defeat of Imperial Germany and the abdication of the emperor gave an opportunity to parliamentary parties to recast German polity.
● A National Assembly met at Weimar and established a democratic constitution with a federal structure.
● Deputies were elected to the German Parliament or Reichstag, on the basis of equal and universal votes cast by all adults including women.
Outcome of the defeat - The Paris Treaty at Versailles
➔ Germany lost its overseas colonies - a 10th of its population, 13%of its territories, 75%of its iron and 26% of its coal to France, Poland, Denmark and Lithuania.
➔ The Allied Powers demilitarised Germany to weaken its power.
➔ The War Guilt Clause held Germany responsible for the war and damages the Allied countries suffered.
➔ Germany was forced to pay compensation amounting to £6 billion.
➔ The Allied armies also occupied the resource-rich Rhineland.
➔ Many Germans held the new Weimar Republic responsible for not only the defeat in the war but the disgrace at Versailles.
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The Effects of the War
❖ The war had a devastating impact on the entire continent both psychologically and financially.
❖ From a continent of creditors, Europe turned into one of debtors.
❖ The Weimar Republic was made to pay for the sins of the old empire.
❖ They were mockingly called the ‘November criminals’.
❖ Politicians and publicists laid great stress on the need for men to be aggressive, strong and masculine.
❖ Popular support grew for conservative dictatorships.
❖ Believe that Democracy could not survive the instabilities of interwar Europe.
2. Lived miserable lives.
3. Trapped with rats feeding on corpses.
4. Faced poisonous gas and enemy
shelling.5. Witnessed their
ranks reduce rapidly.
1. Soldiers came to be placed above
civilians.
Conditions of Soldiers
Political Radicalism and Economic Crises
❏ The birth of the Weimar Republic coincided with the uprising of the Spartacist League on the pattern of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
❏ The Spartacists founded the Communist Party of Germany.
❏ The political instability in Germany paved the way for Hitler.
Economic crisis of 1923
➢ Germany refused to pay the war reparations. ➢ France occupied its leading industrial area,
Ruhr. ➢ Germany retaliated with printing paper
currency recklessly. ➢ The value of the mark collapsed. ➢ Prices of goods soared.➢ There was hyperinflation.
Hyperinflation - A situation when prices
rise phenomenally high.
● Americans intervened and bailed Germany out of the crisis by introducing the Dawes Plan.
● It reworked the terms of reparation to ease the financial burden on Germans.
The Years of Depression
❖ 1924 -128 - Saw some stability
❖ Germany was totally dependent one short-term loans largely from the USA.
❖ This support was withdrawn with the crash in 1929 of the Wall Street Exchange.
❖ This was the start of the Great Economic Depression.
❖ Between 1929 and 1932, the national income of the USA fell by half.
❖ Factories shut down, exports fell, farmers were badly hit and speculators withdrew their money from the market.
❖ The effects of this recession in the US economy were felt worldwide.
❖ German economy was hit badly.
❖ Industrial production was reduced to 40% of the 1929 level.
❖ Workers lost their jobs or were paid reduced wages.
❖ The number of unemployed touched an unprecedented 6 million.
❖ It led to social unrest.
❖ The middle class and working population was filled with the fear of proletarianisation.
Defects of Weimar Republic
1. Proportional representation.
2. Article 48 - gave the President the powers to impose emergency, suspended civil rights and rule by decree.
3. People lost confidence in the democratic parliamentary system.
HOMEWORK
Q. The Great Depression was a period of
A. Economic crisis
B. Social crisis
C. Political crisis
D. None of these
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