Topic 1 Historiography

Question 1

Crisis Era - Revolution

Answer 1

Kolb - “The right would not die”
Weitz - “Ebert wanted to avoid a soviet-style revolution”
Lee - “Defeat in the war, a disintegrating army & the radicalised left”

Question 2

Crisis Era - Weimar Constitution

Answer 2

Lee - “Most advanced of its time”

Kolb - “Ersatz emperor”

Question 3

Recovery Era - Hyperinflation

Answer 3

Snyder - “The scar that never healed”
Mommsen - “Encouraged polarisation”
General Morgan - “Destroyed the equipoise of society”

Question 4

Recovery Era - The Golden Years

Answer 4

McElligot - “Fairly Stable”
Henig - Not becoming more stable
Carr - “Superficial prosperity masked a chronic state of political weakness”

Question 5

Recovery Era - Stresseman

Answer 5

Lee - “Made Germany vulnerable to the American stock market”
Bessel - “Time bomb”
Marks - “Superlative liar”

Question 6

Collapse Era - Factors

Answer 6

Henig - “Dead in all but name”
Evans - “Versailles was only one reason”
Carr - Wall street crash was a major cause

Question 7

Collapse Era - Brüning

Answer 7

Feuchtwanger - “The last defender of democracy”
Mommsen - “Purposefully caused issues”
Kolb - “First in the process of destroying democracy”

Question 8

Collapse Era - Rise of the Nazis

Answer 8

Weitz - “Circumstances left Germans desperate for a solution”
Fritzsche - “Depression sped up Nazi gains”
Kirk - “Greater range of social and economic groups”