The government had problems with the people because the y signed the Treaty of Versailles and that affected Germany seriously.
By the Treaty of Versailles Germany had to reduce their army to 100,000 men. They were not allowed to tanks, submarines or airforce. They lost lots of land. The German people were very angry, and also the government, this was humiliating.
The government try to help the people, by printing more money, but the value of its was lost, this conduct to a hyper inflation.
When you lose the confidence in the government, money is a problem. And this is what happened, people start loosing the confidence in the government because they were on hunger, the people didn’t earn enough for a living, the prices of goods went up faster than the wages, works style of living dropped, many people in Germany faced starvation.
The middle classes found that their savings in the bank were worthless and they felt betrayed by the Weimar government. In 1923 The Weimar Republic was in danger of collapse because of these. The people start to fall down and began to lose faith in them.
The German government had to start the occupations of the Ruhr, in 1921 they found out that they had to pay £6,600, the firs instalment was in the summer an they had to pay £50,000. But in 1922 they had economic problems and they couldn’t pay. The French decided that the amount had to stay the same and France was allowed to sent troops to Ruhr (industrial area) to take the raw materials in place of the money.
The German army was too small they couldn’t even defend themselves. In the Ruhr the German workers went to strike they would not work for French and Belgians. Due this German industry stopped.
150,000 people exiled from the Ruhr and became a violent strike.
French soldiers were angry and shoot some German people. This began to spread and other Germans stopped working out of sympathy, the economy of Germany was very unstable.
Gustay Stresaman made a very important decision thanks to Article 48 and became a chancellor. He told workers that they must go back to work and that the strike most end. He introduced a new currency Retenmark. He said he would start reparations again. Germans couldn’t accept that. He resigned in November 1923 and went to be a very successful foreign minister. What he did stabilised German currency and Germany once they started reparation payments, French and Belgians soldiers with new and the Weimar Republic survived. In 1929 the reparations were re-negotiated and less harsh.
I made my point and prove with facts and evidence that the Weimar Republic faced problems in the early years of its existence.
