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Why did the Weimar republic fail? Essay written by: Bob Mulder After World War One ended and Germany was defeated, they returned to their country with heavy losses, a 6.6 billion pound reparation cost and a feeling of being let down. The country suffered huge economical losses and the country fell into poverty and starvation. Any government ruling a country like this already would have a very hard time keeping alive. At this point the Emergency …

…searching for other parties to govern their country. They found the Nazis and slowly voted them into Government. Hitler took advantage of Germany while it was vulnerable and he succeeded using clever tactics, good timing and luck. It seems this situation was near inevitable and any government would have the same happen to them. It appears there was no way out of the sequence of events that led to the failure of the Weimar republic.