{"id":23373,"date":"2018-08-04T08:16:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T07:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23373"},"modified":"2018-08-04T08:16:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T07:16:58","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-the-weimar-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23373","title":{"rendered":"The rise and fall of the Weimar Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last couple of weeks, I have attended a set of two lectures at London&#8217;s City Literary Institute on the rise and fall of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/weimar-republic\">Weimar Republic<\/a> in Germany from 1919-1933 delivered by Alison Appleby. Below are some brief extracts from my notes:<\/p>\n<p>What were the achievements of the Weimar Republic by 1926?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attempted putsches by Left and Right successfully foiled<\/li>\n<li>Hyperinflation dealt with and currency stabilised<\/li>\n<li>Economic indicators were improving<\/li>\n<li>Improved relations with former enemies France, Britain and USA<\/li>\n<li>Allied armies were to withdraw early from occupied regions<\/li>\n<li>Cultural achievements such as Bauhaus and Expressionism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why did the Weimar Republic not last?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Institutions were largely dominated by anti-republicans in military and civil service<\/li>\n<li>Death of Gustav Stresemann in 1929 who could have diluted the Treaty of Versailles<\/li>\n<li>Political parties supporting Republic lost majority in legislature<\/li>\n<li>Continuing depression in agriculture meant growing discontent in rural areas<\/li>\n<li>Modernism and cosmopolitanism alarmed the traditionalists<\/li>\n<li>Economic recovery was over-dependent on foreign loans and susceptible to global fluctuations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last couple of weeks, I have attended a set of two lectures at London&#8217;s City Literary Institute on the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic in Germany from 1919-1933 delivered by Alison Appleby. Below are some brief extracts from my notes: What were the achievements of the Weimar Republic by 1926? Attempted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23373"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23377,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23373\/revisions\/23377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}