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  2. Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic - Wikipedia

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    Hyperinflation affected the German Papiermark, the currency of the Weimar Republic, between 1921 and 1923, primarily in 1923. The German currency had seen significant inflation during the First World War due to the way in which the German government funded its war effort through borrowing, with debts of 156 billion marks by 1918.

  3. German revolution of 1918–1919 - Wikipedia

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    Impact on the Weimar Republic The Revolution of 1918/19 is one of the most important events in the modern history of Germany, yet it is poorly embedded in the historical memory of Germans. [ 137 ] The failure of the Weimar Republic that the revolution brought into being and the Nazi era that followed it obstructed the view of the events for a ...

  4. Weimar culture - Wikipedia

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    During the era of the Weimar Republic, Germany became a center of intellectual thought at its universities, and most notably social and political theory (especially Marxism) was combined with Freudian psychoanalysis to form the highly influential discipline of critical theory—with its development at the Institute for Social Research (also known as the Frankfurt School) founded at the ...

  5. Weimar political parties - Wikipedia

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    In the fourteen years the Weimar Republic was in existence, some forty parties were represented in the Reichstag.This fragmentation of political power was in part due to the use of a peculiar proportional representation electoral system that encouraged regional or small special interest parties [1] and in part due to the many challenges facing the nascent German democracy in this period.

  6. Printing money: collecting million mark notes from the Weimar ...

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    In Germany between the two world wars, inflation rose to such a point in the early '20s that a loaf of bread cost a million or more marks. Cities and townships printed their own money in a ...

  7. Weimar Constitution - Wikipedia

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    Weimar Republic (1919–1933) Nazi Germany (1933–1945, de jure only) Allied-occupied Germany (1945–1949, de jure only) Ratified: 11 August 1919: Date effective: 14 August 1919: System: Federal semi-presidential republic (1919–1930) de jure till 1945 Federal authoritarian presidential republic under a Parliamentary System (1930–1933)

  8. Under Weimar, political infighting made it impossible to present a united front against rising authoritarianism. Today, the center right and center left are unified in their efforts to prevent ...

  9. Weimar Republic - Wikipedia

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    The coat of arms of the Weimar Republic shown above is the version used after 1928, which replaced that shown in the "Flag and coat of arms" section. The flag of Nazi Germany shown above is the version introduced after the fall of the Weimar Republic in 1933 and used till 1935, when it was replaced by the swastika flag , similar, but not exactly the same as the flag of the Nazi Party that had ...