history quotes

Question 1

Roger B Myerson (Proportional Representation)

Answer 1

“We can see that the Proportional Representation system of the Weimar Republic was particularly well suited to the purposes of a party like the Nazis with their Fuhrer principle.”

Question 2

German politician, Hans Rosenberg (economic crisis in Germany)

Answer 2

“The alternative is now chaos with honor or chaos without honor”

Question 3

Historian, John Wheeler-Bennett

Answer 3

“Gustav Stresemann fought the final battle of his life for the evacuation of the Ruhr”

Question 4

Artist, George Grosz (economic crisis increase price)

Answer 4

“Lingering at the window was a luxury because even an additional minute meant an increase of price”

Question 5

Vernon Bartlet, German woman in 1923

Answer 5

“The middle class was wiped out in a matter of weeks.”

Question 6

Adolf Hitler attacking the Weimar Gov in his speech in 1924

Answer 6

“We want a dictatorship… our misery will increase”

Question 7

Historian David Drew on German Expressionism

Answer 7

“The work of German Expressionists was from the beginning outspokenly propagandist and activist.”

Question 8

Article 118 of the Weimar Constitution

Answer 8

“Every German has the right… to express his opinion freely by word, in writing in print, in picture form, or in any other way.”

Question 9

Article 48 of Weimar Const.

Answer 9

Article 48 allows the President to suspend civil rights and operate independently in an emergency.