The Weimar Constitution and the Weimar Republic itself can be seen as doomed for failure and the precursor to Nazi power. However the failure of the document and the republic can’t simply be placed on the weaknesses the document had but also the historical context in which it came to be. Weimar came to be in the wake of WWI and attempted a wholesale change of Germany’s form of government. I will argue that with the difficulties for Germany following WWI any constitution that would have come to power would have failed and that by no means was the rise of Hitler a result of its failures.
The document itself must be looked at first to see what it was attempting to accomplish and as a lens into the political fracturing of both those in power and the people. This fracturing in politics led to document that was a compromise of the values of many factions within the German political parties. The Constitutions was the product of the SPD and other factions on in the middle of......
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