HIST 2125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Kristallnacht, Gleichschaltung, Long Knives
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Gleichschaltung, night of the long knives (different: kristalnacht), blomberg, roehm. Last opportunity for nations to work some cooperative solution to crisis failure of conference helped gvt. with a fascist message debt issue was still unsolved. Weinmar republic died, with a wimper late 1920s boom years for ge, thanks to us loans these ended. 1928: government in power was a grand coalition of the 4 parties that believed in weinemnar rep. Chancellor: mueller government was on the left encountered problem: unemployment program asked gov for a subsidy. 2 gov ministries come up with a plan to increase contribution there was opposition to this. Stresemann convinced his party to accept deal accepted (sept 1929) Oct 3rd 1929: stresemann has a heart attack coalition began to fracture his party (people"s party) asks workers payments to be reduced things started going downhill. Groening, leader of center, picked to be chancellor.
