UNCC300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Weimar Constitution, Spring Offensive
22 Jan 2019
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The growth and rise to power of the nazi party between 1919 to 1933 was impacted to a significant extent by weaknesses in the weimar republic. Republic was a government attempting a democracy in a country that was full of political, economic and personal trauma. This included impacts of the first world war, the implications of the treaty of versailles and constitutional problems. The nazi party was able to capitalise on these weaknesses along with other factors such as the wall street crash, Hitler"s charisma and propaganda techniques; to flourish into a new democratic order. The impacts the first world war inevitably accounted for the growth and rise of the nazi. Initially, the german"s entered ww1 in august of 1914, with a high sense of optimism and confidence and were led to believe by their government that they were winning the war.
