Egon88

Egon88 t1_j3x8yjb wrote

Reply to Was the Weimar Republic really meant to go down? by DaslolligeLol

>Multiple times the german economy almost broke down due to the huge reparations Germany had to pay to the allies.

I thought this pov was not considered valid anymore. Wasn't the inflation more a result of the German gov't deliberately devaluing the currency as a way around reparations and didn't the German gov't just outright stop paying what they were supposed to for long periods of time.

edit: For example here's what Margret MacMillan says about it.

https://artsfile.ca/margaret-macmillan-on-the-truths-and-consequences-of-history/

>“There has been a lot more research on the 1920s. For so long the decade was seen as a prelude to the 1930s and we all know what happened then.

>“Historians looking at the 1920s are now concluding that it wasn’t so clear cut as that. There were some hopeful signs and the League of Nations was actually working in a way. Germany, too, was becoming part of the community of nations again.”

>In fact it did in the end join the league.

>Even the crushing burden of reparation payments imposed on Germany was being brought under control, she said.

>“They were negotiated down. It looked as if the world was going to get back on an even keel. I think lot of historians, and I tend to agree with them, now feel there wasn’t enough time for the roots of constitutional and democratic government to be established before the Great Depression came along.”

>That calamity turned the nations of the world inward and it crushed trust in governing elites. Germany had been previously battered by a hyper-inflation that, she said, was basically the fault of the German government which in fact had encouraged inflation because it diminished the reparations bill.

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