Friday, December 4, 2009
Snider- Weimar Government was Shameful
As a German citizen, I believe that the performance of the Weimar Government was shameful. At first, I had trust in the Weimar Government but all of their actions have led me to think otherwise. For example, I wish that the Weimar Government had dealt with World War One differently in the fact that they should not have given up in the war and settled for a peace settlement. The Weimar Government probably thought that imposing a peace settlement would be the best for us. When in reality, it created more problems for us all. The problems with the Treaty of Versailles are many. For example, it reduced the army to 100,000; we accumulated $33 billion in war reparations; it caused a war-clause guilt; and we also had to give up some of our best land. This decision made by the Weimar Government has made our country suffer many problems. If they had never agreed to end the war, we would have never had to face many of these problems that we have come across. The Weimar Government should have never settled for a peace settlement and should have let our country continue to fight. Maybe these problems we have faced could have been inevitable, but I think that signing this treaty made the problems a lot worse than they should have been. I also think that the Weimar Government should have acted differently about the land after World War One. Once they signed the Treaty of Versailles, Germany had to give up much of its best land. This affected many of us. When our land was taken from us, some of us lost our jobs. The land that we had to give up could have been used for agriculture and farming. Giving our land away led to another problem. Without this land, many people found themselves unemployed. Also, since the war was over, many soldiers came home to find no job opportunities available. If the Weimar Government had never ended the war, this would have never been a problem. Nothing would have changed. The signing of the Treaty of Versailles seemed to cause a lot more problems than it helped resolve. But, if the Weimar Government had decided to stay in the war and we lost, the same problems could have occurred; however, we do not know that and never will because the Weimar Government decided to withdrawal from the war and sign the peace treaty.
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I forgot to add my sources, but I used Belk's notes.
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ReplyDeleteMaggie!! You are right! I agree with you 100 percent. If we would have stayed in the war, some of the problems would have still occured. We would still be starving and people would still be dieing. Or will they? As a citizen I would rather take this chance rather than signing th Peace Treaty. Or at least going a little longer to see if we were going to continue to win, or if we were going ot get defeated. But if we would have stayed int he war and we would have been defeated, who would have been the blame? The govenment. So therefore the government was stuck between a rock and a hard place like Mr. Belk said. So can we really blame the government for any decision that they make? Well, since they did make the decision and the results are still bad, with starvation, and the economy, we have no choice but to blame them. They made this bad decision. But no matter where they turned, either way it would have been a bad decision. So with this being said, are they really the blame. And us a citizens, if we had to make this decision, would it of been easier for us to decide? Probably not.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you both in that Germany stood have stayed in the war at least a little longer to see how things played out. Germany would not want to wait so long as to be invaded and overtaken but they were still in enemy territory. They had a long ways to back up before they even reached their own boarder. Yes, people were dying and other people back at home had hard times but those were also consequences of signing the peace treaty. At that time, Germany had no reason to sign the treaty. They lost more by signing it which angered the people and left the country looking for extremist groups to help fix their problems.
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