1. November criminals
 The supporters of the Weimar Republic were
Socialists, Catholics and Democrats became very
easy target to attack the conservative nationalist
circle. They were mockingly called November
criminals.

2. German Economy after 1st W.W
 Germany fought in the war largely on loans and had
to pay war reparations in gold.
 This depleted gold reserves at a time recourses
were scarce.
 In 1923 Germany refused to pay war debt and
France captured one of their leading industrial area
Ruhr, claming their coal.
 Germany followed a passive resistance and printed
lot of paper currency.
 With too much printed money caused the German
market fell.
 Value of market collapsed.
 This led to the hyper inflation in Germany.

3. Deplete Reparation
 Reduce or empty  Make up for a
out wrong done.

4. Causes of Economic recession in
USA
 Over production led to the economic depression and
collapse the American Stock market.
 American farmers had greatly increased their
production during the war period.
 But after the revolt the demand for food reduced
and price fell.
 The capitalists tried to increase their profit and paid
low wages to the workers.
 Thus goods remained unsold in America.
 Also not much demand in Europe due to the collapse
of Economy after the 1 W.W.

5.  America began to speculate in the stock market with
borrowed money.
 As a result in October 1929 New york Stock
Exchange collapsed.
 Value of shares dropped.
 Banks, factories, mining companies and business
firms went bankrupt.
 There led to a large scale of poverty, unemployment
and starvation.

6. Germany and Economic crisis
 The economic crisis affected the German economy
very harmfully.
 The industrial production was reduced.
 Workers lost their jobs and paid low wages.
 Un employment emerged in all over Germany.
 It affected the peasants, womans and Childrens in
Germany

7. Politically Weimar Republic was a
failure- Discuss
 Politically it was a fragile.
 The Weimar constitution had some defects, which
made unstable and vulnerable to dictatorship.
 Another one was proportional representation.
 This made achieving a majority by any one party a
near impossible task, leading a rule of coalitions.
 Article 48 which gave the president the powers to
impose emergency, suspend civil rights.
 They failed to manage this situations.
 The peoples they have lost their confidence in the
Democratic system.