The Weimar government is doing exactly what they ought to do. Even though I do have to say, they could be much better, I'm sure that these problems will go away as we continue to live under the Weimar government.
First of all, I am extremely happy they pulled out of the war within the second day they were put in power. Some of us citizens wanted Germany to stay in the war. After all, we were winning. However, they must remember that we faced the chance of an invasion from the Allies! What would that have done to our country? We were already starving, with the blockade from Great Britain continuing to prevent us from getting the food we desperately needed (Belk Notes). We needed to end the starvation, and start getting out of this mess! The only way was to get out of the war, and start going back to what was normal.
I think that we can all say, as proud Germans, that we were more than upset when we found out that WE were not only forced to admit to causing the war, but also had to give up land.(Source 1) So much, in fact, that we ended up losing 13 percent of the land we had, and all of the colonies! (Belk Notes) However, this can not be blamed on the Weimar Government. We citizens have to realize that even though Germany is great, we would have to meet the requirements of the Treaty of Versailles, for our opponent is formidable. Maybe one day we will be forgiven, or we will get rid of it entirely. Who knows.
I was pretty disappointed with the huge mistake the Weimar government made in terms of dealing with the economy. Not only did they end up producing bills that we were forced to the point of inflation, but we also had to deal with all the job losses. The valuable land taken through the Treaty of Versailles also took away some of us, and therefore some of our jobs. Therefore, we were limited in what we could do. (Belk Notes) The Weimar government still can't be blamed for this. I'm sure they'll get rid of the inflation we're experiencing, and will help create jobs. That is their job after all, and they are brand new.
Overall, the government is really rough right now, but they will get better over time.
Araam Araam What has gotten into you?? The Weimar Government of course!! I agree with you that they are brand new and they should not be the blame for everything bad that is going on but who should?? Who should be the blame?? I'm sorry but when there are things going bad in the country, the government should be te blame. I'm sorry but, it's the job of the government to take care of the country. In order to take do this they must take care of the citizens. Signin the Treaty of Versailles was a bad idea. Yes it was a treaty, but did it bring us peace? So, how dare they call it a peace treaty? It's not!!! Yeah we were starving during the war, so it was a good decision to get out the war. But some of us are still starving here!! There are no jobs! And if they would not have signed the treaty, we would have more land, opening up the jobs!! You say that they wil get rid of the inflation! But how sure are you? You are not sure. What if jobs don't become available. It's like we are suppose to sit here and wait for a miracle! As a citizen, the Weimar Government has made me not believe in miracles!! Sorry, but we can't blame no one else but the Weimar Goverenment! If not them who else??
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ReplyDeleteYou, the German citizen, seem upset about the way things have turned out. Yet you say the Weimer Republic is not to blame for these problems. You present an interesting point of view. I agree with your point about the government being brand new and needing a certain degree of sympathy. However, do you not expect the Weimar Republic to listen to the concerns of the people and act according to what they want? This isn't exactly what the Weimar Republic has done. Germans wanted their country to win the war, and the government pulled out of it. The Treaty of Versailles required Germany to accept responsibility and pay $33 billion for WWI, which no German was happy about, and the Weimar Government agreed to these terms. And by agreeing to this treaty, they also forefitted Germany's most valuable agricultural and industrial land. This land could have been used to grow and produce things to sell in order to pay off that huge war debt that no one wanted. It seems as though the Weimar Republic is doing the opposite of what the people want; these moves they have taken have not exactly improved the quality of life or eased the burdens of German citizens. I'm not disagreeing with your opinion. I'm just asking why, when nothing is turning out in your favor, are you optimistic for your government?
Concerned Citizen,
ReplyDeleteYou miss ein point en saying that ein new governnment does not work well at first, but will as time kontinues. But does the fact that it ist new mean that it works better than die old? Die kaiser no was gute, so he left. Ja, ist true that ist new, but should it not be better than die last?
Ja, we were winning die war, and we should have stayed! What could be die wurst thing to happen, if die allies came in? Die allies are guten people, they would not harm us so bad, und if we won die war, it would place Germany as a Welt power, like die great Bismark wanted! Take ein koin out of die pokett, und flippen. Heads ist we win, und tails ist we lose, but end up in die same place as now. Which side did it flip? Either way, ist better than now.
Because die kowards signed die paper, we lost die Deutsch respect. I habe to worry about mein job, und food fur mein family, especially if someone tries to stop die governnment, then in that case there ist no food fur ich, or mein family. You are ein traitor like die rest of die Deutsch welt, you must have money. To tell you, you will lose haff of your money, once we haff to start paying die $33 billion Amerikan dollars. You habe money, und you might lose your job too. Go to another place, you might say? Well who wants a Deutsch traitor responsible for millions of deaths living near them? I am trapped here, thanks to peepul like you.
No one seems to like or think about die common peepul. We kant breath.
All right, Araam, I just wanted to pick at something you wrote about the issue with land. I tried to read and see if anyone had already said something about this and got through he first two comments, but unfortunately Josh's combination of English and German has blinded me, so I'll simply put this out here: You say that the loss of land isn't the government's fault. I beg to differ. The whole reason Germany lost land is because they signed the Treaty of Versailles, and that was a consequence of leaving the war, which *was* the government's fault. I would hypothesize that, if the Weimar government hadn't taken Germany out of World War One, Germany may have not only succeeded in defeating the Allies, but would have gained more land with it.
ReplyDeleteIn essence, the loss of land was very much so the government's fault. :]
Ok so, I agree with snipits frm everyone on this post. Araam, I agree that some Gremans wanted to stay in the war, but we were not winning. We were atarving and could not protect ourselves against strong governments and militaries such as the British and Americans. There is no way that we would have lasted any much longer than we did. Afterall, just look at the death toll, I mean we practically have to start over in buliding our population due to the billions of lives lost and why would we continue to stay some where that the odds of excelling are slimer than a slice of cheese?
ReplyDeleteToya, I agree that the Weimar Government is some what to blame due to the absolute harsh terms they accepted from the T.O.V. but the blmae cannot be soley placed on the Weimar Government. I mean they weren't the ones to get us into this war, they were ust the ones to try their best to salvage what they could from the destruction. They also weren't the ones to get us in and then continue to dig our graves further and further (litterally, once again look at how big the death toll was). So yes the Weimar Government is to blame but also the Government in place before the Weimar came in MUST take a great deal of the blame.
Sarah, I agree that the Weimar Government acception of such harsh terms provided by the T.O.V. is not the best option. I mean they could have at least bargained alittle, I know we were not in the best of spots to bargin but it could have been brought to the allies attention that this T.O.V. would deminish Gremany. And maybe truely thats what the allies want, to rid of Gremany.
Josh, I'm sorry I honestly cound not follow your post..sorry!
Katie, I agree that leaving the war was the governments decision but the loss of so much land was forced upon Germany. Yes, the Weimar Government could have bargined some what to limit the amount of land that the T.O.V. took but honestly there was going to be land lost, so yes someone would have to take blame either way.