Weimar Republic (nov 10, 1918 – aug 1, 1934)

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The Weimar Republic took control of Germany following the Kaiser's abdication and promptly ended the first world war.
It inherited many problems from imperial Germany due to the effects of the first world war but the promise of democracy made many hopeful.

Many patriots and ex-soldiers felt betrayed by the Weimar politicians because they felt that Germany could have won the war.
The stable economy and industrial infrastructure of imperial Germany had been damaged.
Germany had borrowed money from America and lent money to their own allies which left them in debt and the factories had been focused on arms production and so had not been making money from foreign trade. This meant that there was little money coming into Germany and that it would be difficult to regain as factories would have to be repurposed again.
Factory owners had made millions from the war while workers' wages were capped and so major class divisions afflicted society, especially as men were coming back to lower wages and poverty.
Women working in factories was looked down on by those with 'traditional family values' and the 60,000 that were widowed (having 2,000,000 children) in the war would lose their factory jobs and cost the government in war pensions.

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