What was the Weimar constitution?
Following the conclusion of the First World War, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated and a new constitution was adopted in Germany. The name given to the new government in 1919 was the Weimar Republic. The new republic faced many challenges, and although there was a successful period of recovery in the years 1923-1929, the death of the reforming chancellor Gustav Stresemann and the Wall Street Crash (1929) painfully revealed the weaknesses of the government. Examining the weaknesses of the Weimar Republic is key to understanding how Hitler was able to manipulate the situation and become chancellor in the year 1933.
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