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#1 The Weimar Republic was extremely fragile, and could have easily fallen apart after World War I. However, the German people were extremely patriotic, and the government used this to their advantage to sell the public on the idea of continuing the war.
#2 The German government promised its people that victory would bring a new kind of imperial grandeur. Germany would become the dominant power in Europe, annexing territory from Belgium and France, and more from the western lands of the Russian Empire.
#3 The German Army was pushed to its limits by the war, and in September 1918, the generals told the Kaiser that they wanted to negotiate an armistice with the western powers. However, democratic leaders from the Reichstag negotiated the armistice instead.
#4 In the autumn of 1918, Germany was shaken by revolution. The country’s new leader, Friedrich Ebert, wanted Germany to become a parliamentary democracy along Western lines. However, some wanted Germany to become a social revolution like Russia had experienced.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	23 juillet 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822546462
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Weimar Republic was extremely fragile, and could have easily fallen apart after World War I. However, the German people were extremely patriotic, and the government used this to their advantage to sell the public on the idea of continuing the war.

#2

The German government promised its people that victory would bring a new kind of imperial grandeur. Germany would become the dominant power in Europe, annexing territory from Belgium and France, and more from the western lands of the Russian Empire.

#3

The German Army was pushed to its limits by the war, and in September 1918, the generals told the Kaiser that they wanted to negotiate an armistice with the western powers. However, democratic leaders from the Reichstag negotiated the armistice instead.

#4

In the autumn of 1918, Germany was shaken by revolution. The country’s new leader, Friedrich Ebert, wanted Germany to become a parliamentary democracy along Western lines. However, some wanted Germany to become a social revolution like Russia had experienced.

#5

Between early February and August 1919, the German national assembly drafted a state-of-the-art constitution for a modern democracy. The main architect of the Weimar Constitution was a law professor named Hugo Preuss.

#6

The Weimar Republic was based on the German Constitution of 1919, which was highly innovative and drew from many different German history sources. It created a parliament that was proportional, and it created a president separate from the chancellor.

#7

The president was the head of state, and the constitution outlined his general duties to dedicate his whole strength to the welfare of the German people. He was responsible for representing the country internationally.

#8

Germany was not a democracy in 1914, but it had become one of the most liberal countries in Europe. The right-wing parties had steadily lost ground to liberal and socialist forces, and many were turning against the system.

#9

The Treaty of Versailles was the main cause of the post-war division in Germany. It was extremely harsh, and gave German border territory to Poland, Denmark, Belgium, and France. It also limited the size of the German army and navy, and forbade union with Austria.

#10

The myth of 1914, which claimed that the outbreak of war brought sudden, ecstatic unity to the German people, was completely false. In reality, many Germans hated what was happening.

#11

The myth of the stab in the back was a lie that was used by the military high command to excuse its conduct of the war. It was picked up by nationalists to delegitimize democrats, and millions of Germans believed it anyway.

#12

The German government was forced to accommodate itself to the world order after the First World War, but the nationalists, who refused to accept the postwar settlement, wanted to rebel against it.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Hitler was a master of deception, and he used this to gain power. He claimed that the less honest a political message, the better. He said that politicians should tell small and insignificant lies, because the small lie can be easily discovered and then the politician’s credibility will be ruined.

#2

Hitler had contempt for the German people, and thought that they were weak, foolish, and uninterested in politics. Yet, he had a remarkable intuition for the thoughts, hopes, fears, and needs of other people.

#3

Hitler was born in Austria in 1889. His father, Alois Hitler, was an official in the Austro-Hungarian customs service. His mother, Klara Pölzl, was twenty-three years younger than Alois and his third wife. Hitler was the couple’s fourth child but the first to survive infancy.

#4

Hitler’s father, Alois, was a civil servant who moved the family frequently. Hitler, on the other hand, dreamed of becoming an artist. He met his father halfway by preparing for a career as an architect.

#5

Hitler’s life before the war was uneventful. He had some savings, and he received a military grant from his aunt, but he spent most of his time drifting and painting postcards. When the war began, he volunteered for the Bavarian Army, but he was rejected because he was an Austrian citizen.

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