HIST 436 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mein Kampf, Spartacist Uprising, Walther Rathenau
20 Aug 2019
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Weitz and weimar democracy: the ppl were democratic, but the system not so much. (endless litany of the anti-d forces in the weimar republic - it"s prejudiced by the outcome (dictatorship)) Hindenburg was senile as president, but not so incapacitated as to be able to resist hitler for a while: dislike him b/c he had spent 4 yrs in ww1 and not reached higher than corporal. The voter turnout #s are massive = proof nonetheless of confidence in the electoral system. The democracy such that it was produced hitler. The social-democrats failed in the weimar republic, understandably, b/c they were blamed for everything, they were persecuted in germany from the 1860s to 1914: blamed for the defeat, for the treaty of versailles, for hyperinflation Weitz refers to the national socialists as a "politically irrelevant speck" - this was when they were winning. 1932 potempa murder - 12 sa members beat a communist to death (force his mum to watch).
