How far do you agree with the view that in the years 1919-29 the democratic experiment in Germany must be seen as a success?
After the First World War, Germany was left in a bad economic, social and political situation. It could be said, that Germany’s political state was unstable between the duration of 1919-1929. Although, it could be argued that that the democratic experiment that took place during this time had both success and failures.
A successful aspect of the democratic experiment was the genuine advance toward the Weimar Republic from 1919. The other successful aspect we could take into account that in 1923-1929 it was relatively stable, socially and politically. Partially due to a significant individual by the name of Gustav Stressmann in using his policies such as the Great Coalitions, to improve the position of the world’s view of Germany. Also due to Charles Dawes, who was known as the US budget administrator. He also created the Dawes plan with Stresemann that was able to
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Considering economic and social factors such as, the economy had boomed and cultural life was begging to flourish. Since more jobs were occurring, factories started to be more productive which would therefore generate more GDP for Germany. This was all from the sake of Gustav Stresemann who was the Chancellor for Germany. He was considered as being one of the savours for Germany. As stated by a statement from Stresemanns’s obituary ‘’He has worked hard to rebuild his shattered country and for peace.’’ He created the Great Coalition which did fail, although the government was finally able to create laws. They were also able to call of a strike and persuaded the French to leave the Ruhur. Therefore it made Germany put forth the impression that they are becoming more democratic and changing their ways. This then made them join the League of