How Did The Weimar Democracy Fail

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When the foundations were laid for Weimar in 1918, its democratic system was an undesirable shift to the conservative elites from previously monarchical rulers. From this arises the fallacy that democracy failed due to its ‘inexperience’ and ‘disillusionment’ with the treaty of Versailles. The German reichswehr, filled with conservatives and anti-republicans, perpetuated the Dolchstosslegende myth in an effort to discredit democracy as a means to advocate the restoration of the monarchy. Ebert and the leadership under the SPD failed to reform these traditional structures of imperial Germany and instead, relied heavily on these conservative forces for order and stability. This was partly due to the traditionalist forces fruitfully exploiting