JWST 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Erich Ludendorff, Mein Kampf, Wilhelm Frick
Document Summary
Hitler"s rise to power was not inevitable, it was neither an automatic product of germany"s defeat in wwi nor the unavoidable result of the great depression. In the wake of military defeat in 1918, germans introduced a new form of government based on a democratic constitution - it became known as the weimar republic, after the city of. It was a failed experiment in german democracy but had nothing to do with nazism. It was built on longstanding political parties, legal and bureaucratic structures and electoral practices in german. The weimar republic had considerable achievements in the political and cultural spheres as well as in foreign policy and the economy. In 1919 germany became the first major european power after russia to give women the right to vote. It had the strongest economy in continental europe for most of its history.
