... the Weimar Republic and all that it stood for ignited a burning ambition to reclaim the glories of a past German Empire, under a 1000year reign. This essay will attempt to illustrate how in the period of 1923-33, political, social and economic developments generate into the ideal strains and resentments within society, that would therefore create opportunistic conditions for Hitler to Rise into Power by 1933, and why amongst the crises of 1923 there was not sufficient instability to launch an unknown right-wing extremist into power. The Weimar Republics infancy was just as traumatic and turbulent as its birth. Early in 1919, as the new state was being created, it faced its first real threat, the communist inspired Sparticist rising. Then, in August 1919, even before the constitution had been formally adopted the Republic received a hammer blow, when the peace terms in the Treaty of Versailles laid full blame for ...

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