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18: The Third Reich Pt. 4 - The Republic

History of the Second World War

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The Problem With the Weimar Government

The Weimar government faced many problems in the post-war years. The biggest problem was inflation, which wiped out life savings of vast swaths of Germans. Inflation would have catastrophic consequences on some groups within society. This caused those who had previously been in the middle to fragment both in terms of their economic situation and their political views.

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