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How badly damaged was Democracy in Germany by 1923?  

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How badly damaged was Democracy in Germany by 1923? In 1919, Germany's national debt was one hundred and forty four thousand million DM, with an additional six hundred thousand million pounds of reparations (not added until 1921, however). This was the credit with which the foetal Weimar government had to play with at it's inception - it had to contend not only with this, but also the threat of revolution, wartime economic blockades until the allied forces decided upon Germany's punishment, and a political system which actually encouraged the parties which openly wished to destroy the government to attempt to gain power (proportional representation). The four years to come were to be no easier for the government - in fact, as Craig put it, they were to be years in which "the normal state was crisis". By the turn of the decade, the threat from the left had been all but...

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