As mentioned, Ludwig Erhard was Adenauer’s successor. While he was indeed, credited with the “economic miracle”, during his time as chancellor, the first post war recession occurred and Erhard took credit for it and resigned. All in all his time as chancellor was short; however, Erhard’s resignation set the stage for a grand coalition between the CDU and the SPD. That grand coalition passed a particular piece of legislation that was “designed to produce balanced growth that would benefit all of German society”. The Law for Promoting Stability and Growth in the Economy was that piece of legislation, it set up a consensus about social and economic policy that really stabilized the economy. In fact, that was the law, which helped, set up the social market economy that is in place in …show more content…
The worry is that the migrants would over stretch Germany and take it past its breaking point. Interestingly enough, Unification has already presented Germany with a sudden and massive increase in population, so it does not seem crazy to think that if Germany chooses to go the route of letting the refugees in that they would employ similar policies and tactics that they did with Unification. If that is that option that the Germans go with, it seems plausible that they would work to have the influx of migrants happen rapidly and that they would put policies in place that might cause some slight suffering in the short term in order to benefit in the long term. Of course, on the other side, the Germans could decide to adopt a close door policy and not allow the influx of refugees into the country. If they go with that option, they will have to look towards some of the factors that were a part of their post-WWII success, the German economy would need to remain strong and the German culture would need to remain positive and democracy oriented in order for the citizens to remain happy. (BBC, 2015) (Hauss,
"Account for the changing political fortunes of the Nazi Party from November, 1923 until January, 1933."
In The Nazi Seizure of Power by William Sheridan Allen, the author is able to show the reader the support building strategy used by the Nazi party in Northeim and surrounding areas. Allen's thesis is that Nazi party was able to succeed the village of Northeim and else where because they were able to reach out the lower and middle class. Since these classes held the majority of the population, the Nazi party discovered what they wanted from government officials and then used that to persuade these classes to vote for them. To give you a background of the village of Northeim is vital to the understanding of how this party could have come in and take over the political scene so quickly.
The German Weimar Republic was an attempt to make Germany a more democratic state. While this was a very good idea in theory, the Weimar Republic was ineffective due to the instability that came with it. Several factors contributed to the instability of Germany’s Weimar Republic, such as the new political ideals brought forward and the government’s hunger for war. To begin, one of the factors that contributed to the instability of the Weimar republic was the presence of new political ideals. Marie Juchacz unintentionally highlighted that reason in her speech to the National Assembly.
The economic miracle was the high economic growth experienced by the FRG as a result of the Marshall plan and the financial reforms introduced by the finance minister, Ludwig Erhard. The financial reforms included implementing the currency reform in the Western Zones, lifting most restrictions on control prices in the market and reducing taxation. In the agriculture sector, although farmers continued to receive heavy subsidies, the structure of the economy was changed and as a consequence the proportion of the workforce employed in farming was nearly halved. This meant the economic miracle of the FRG wasn’t a total success because many people who previously had a job in the agricultural sector may find it harder to get a job elsewhere because they may have found it hard to transfer the necessary skills. However, it could still be argued that the agricultural sector was a success because although unemployment in the sector increased, the rationalisation by more mechanisation still brought about a substantial increase in production-nearly 25 per cent in the 10 years of the 1950s. Nevertheless, the agricultural sector wasn’t a total success because of the increase in unemployment in the sector. Another reason why the economic miracle wasn’t a total success was because Erhard’s implementation of the social market economy in 1948-9 did not immediately cause economic take off. The steep rise of prices which occurred was not matched by the rate of wage increases. This meant that the economic miracle wasn’t a total success because there was hardship for the poorer people in society as a result of prices rising at a faster rate than wages. Furthermore, the shortages of many resources, especially coal, led to a sharp increase in imports and a serious balance of payments deficit. This meant that the economic miracle wasn’t a total success because the German economy faced recession in 1949-50 because there was
Hitler and the Nazi Party's Total Control Over the Lives of German People from 1933-1945
The German nation was born in January 1871 at the Palace of Versailles. Many factors have been noted by historians as to what led to the eventual unification of Germany such as; economic and industrial factors and the role of Otto Von Bismarck. A debate that has emerged over German Unification is whether it was united by ‘coal and iron’ or ‘blood and iron’; this looks at whether economic or political factors were the main driving force behind unification. In this essay I will explore these factors and gain an understanding of how these factors contributed to German Unification and come to a decision as to whether it was a nation unified by economic
The Success of the Nazi Party I disagree with this statement, as I believe that there were many other factors that helped the Nazi party. In the background the hatred of the treaty of Versailles, desire to return to a Kaiser figure and the weakness of the Weimar government definitely helped the Nazis gain support from the German people. After the Wall Street crash when Hitler started using article 48 more was when He really started to gain power. The hatred of the treaty of Versailles was very important.
The Nazi party affected many people around the world through both the Holocaust and World War II. Hitler had a plan to exterminate all the Jews, and propelled this idea through the Holocaust putting Jews in concentration camps and killing them. Hitler's evil plan caused one of the world's biggest tragedies, World War II.
Richard Bessel’s article stresses the political structure of Weimar Germany as the cause of its failure. Its structure was flawed in numerous ways, all of which contributed to its inevitable failure. First of all, the problems within Germany due to the First World War were massive. This caused economic, political and social problems which first had to be dealt with by the new Weimar government. The loss of the war had left Germany with huge reparations to pay, and massive destruction to repair. In order to gain the capital needed to finance efforts to rebuild, and repay the Allies, the economy had to be brought back to its prewar levels. This was not an easy task.
In 19th century Italian states united to make Italy while the Germanic states united and made Germany. For Italy there were three people who had a major role in unifying Italy. They were Mazzini, Garibaldi and Cavour. For Germany it was more like one person who united the German states to make Germany and that was Bismarck. On the other hand there was a strong Austrian empire that would not tolerate any nationalist feelings to rise anywhere in Europe.
Under the Dawes Plan, the German economy boomed in the 1920s, paying reparations and increasing production. Germany's economy decreased in 1929, though, when Congress revoked the Dawes Plan loans.
create a German Air force and in March 1935 he said that he was going
...After we consider all these points mentioned we begin to see how everything worked and connected to form one huge disaster for Germany. We start to see how all these things played a part, the reparations led to unemployment that led to no money that led to overprinting of money. How the huge consequence of the reparations led to the unsuccessful paying of it leading to the French invasion of the Ruhr which led to strikes and therefore no products to trade with. How the unstable Weimar government led to extremist parties that damaged the economy further and brought inflation to its highest. The effects were probably the worst, the starvation coupled with the disease epidemic that killed people off and the worthless tonnes of paper notes roaming around the nation. It all in all was a very bad time in Germany one that they always found it hard to recover from.
Historians are often divided into categories in regard to dealing with Nazi Germany foreign policy and its relation to Hitler: 'intentionalist', and 'structuralist'. The intentionalist interpretation focuses on Hitler's own steerage of Nazi foreign policy in accordance with a clear, concise 'programme' planned long in advance. The 'structuralist' approach puts forth the idea that Hitler seized opportunities as they came, radicalizing the foreign policies of the Nazi regime in response. Structuralists reject the idea of a specific Hitlerian ideological 'programme', and instead argue for an emphasis on expansion no clear aims or objectives, and radicalized with the dynamism of the Nazi movement. With Nazi ideology and circumstances in Germany after World War I influencing Nazi foreign policy, the general goals this foreign policy prescribed to included revision of Versailles, the attainment of Lebensraum, or 'living space', and German racial domination. These foreign policy goals are seen through an examination of the actions the Nazi government took in response to events as they happened while in power, and also through Hitler's own ideology expressed in his writings such as Mein Kempf. This synthesis of ideology and social structure in Germany as the determinants of foreign policy therefore can be most appropriately approached by attributing Nazi foreign policy to a combination as both 'intentionalist' and 'structuralist' aims. Nazi foreign policy radicalized with their successes and was affected by Hitler pragmatically seizing opportunities to increase Nazi power, but also was based on early a consistent ideological programme espoused by Hitler from early on.
Despite the favourable outlook of Germans regarding reunification, its initial stages were unsuccessful in establishing a foundation which Germany could answer the people’s dreams of peace, prosperity and unity. The collapse of communism in Europe signified a change in people’s ways of thinking due to the fact East Germans had experienced suppression for forty years. Subsequent to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the March 1990 free elections, a positive outlook for the future and belief in freedom began to proliferate amongst East Germans. German Chancellor Kohl took an optimistic outlook for the future, and believed German free enterprise would create ‘economic miracles’ . This new method of thinking was growing within the East of Berlin before the problems of reunification that soon grew within society.