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“Stresemann and his

times denied the Nazi fire the oxygen of misery and it was all but extinguished.”

Ronald Cameron

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To what extent can Stresemann be called the saviour of the

Weimar Government?

To be able to evaluate Stresemann's success and come to a balanced conclusion

Successes / failures

You are going to write an essay on how successful Stresemann really was in the 1920s

The paragraphs headings will be:• Hyperinflation / Ruhr• International relations / foreign policy• German economy• German culture• German politics

In 1929 Germany

suffered TWO disasters...

(1) Gustav Stresemann died. The ‘Golden Age of Weimar’ died with

him.

(2) 1929 Wall Street Crash – this was the

economic collapse of the USA

USA Germany

GB & FRANCE

loans Rep’s

War debts

THE DAWES PLAN 1924

Hint: Think about where Germany was getting her

money from and WHO she was paying it to.

What PROBLEMS do you think the Wall Street Crash had on Germany? (think about where she was getting her money from to pay reparations).

HISTORIOGRAPHY (AJP TAYLOR)“It was the Great Depression that put the wind in Hitler’s sails”. (click me

for a short clip)

• The Wall Street Crash in 1929 had huge consequences for Germany.

• US loans dried up (loans that had saved Weimar) and unemployment soared – peaking at 5.5 million.

• People remembered the earlier problems and once again the democratically-elected government seemed unable to cope – many turned to extremist parties.

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DESPITE WEIMAR’S GOLDEN AGE… “In 1929 it (Weimar) faced a disastrous economic blizzard in which much of what it had achieved was blown away.’’