„Demokratie in Gefahr!“ - Die Anfänge der Weimarer Republik 1918-23 und ihr Scheitern 1933.

In the organizer's words:

Lecture with discussion

The young Weimar Republic (= democracy) successfully asserted itself against opponents from the right (= monarchy or dictatorship) and the left (= council state). Against a backdrop of rising inflation, revolutionary unrest and political assassinations, hunger and unemployment determined the fate of the people who were struggling to find a new direction. In 1923, the French and Belgians occupied the Ruhr region. Hitler staged a coup in Munich. However, Chancellor Stresemann overcame the Hitler putsch and inflation. The young democracy thus also survived this crisis situation. It was not until another economic crisis and the strengthening of the NSDAP that democracy was legally (!) dealt its deathblow.

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