I am a German citizen and these are my rating on the performance of the Weimar government. Out of all of the issues the government dealt with, I will point out the three main issues that I feel disappointed me the most. The three main issues deal with how they dealt with WWI, how they dealt with the land question after WWI, and how they dealt with the post-war economy.
First off I must convey my attitude towards the Weimar government; I feel like they are a failure and don’t represent or govern us to the best of their ability. This brings me o the way they dealt with WWI. Our military entered into the war ready to defend our German country. We gave our all and to have the Weimar government choose to have us resign from it is ridiculous. This makes me view our so called government as cowards. It’s frustrating to know that we were winning the war and our men are risking loosing their life for the Weimar government and Germany. To me they basically let u down. I mean I wouldn’t have given up on my country if I was governing. When they gave up on us because they were afraid of failure, which was the first thing that made me look at them as a failure and cowards. Not only were they cowards, but they also signed some “peace treaty” that said we would: 1.Take blame for the war, 2. Reduce military, 3. Owe 33 billion in war reparation and 4. Give up land.
After WWI, their failures continued to grow in my eyes. The settlement that affected me and the most was when we had to give our land away. This had me heated. All of the land of ours was signed away because of the Weimar government’s coward ness. We entered in the war wanting to gain land and ended up losing the land that we had from the beginning. When we gave our land away it wasn’t just any old land, it was the best of the best. My land that I lived on was taken and my family had to move. The Weimar hasn’t done anything but leave my family and our country in a disgrace.
The way they dealt with post-war economy also showed failure when it came to the industrial and agricultural output and unemployment. Once again, I blame it on the horrible judgment of the Weimar government when they signed the “peace treaty”. The peace treaty said we owed 33 billion in war reparation. Since we owed this much, we had to suffer because our country was now in debt. By us being in debt, there wasn’t enough money to pay workers. So therefore, jobs were decreasing. This caused problems for our military men when they came home to no jobs. This major economic change would make them and families suffer. Like I stated earlier, the peace treaty took away he land in which helped me provide for my family. So not only were our jobs taken away but our land also. All of this happened because of the Weimar government and their poor leadership.
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I disagree with some of the things you said. By the Weimar Government making the decision to sign the Treaty of Versailles didn't mean that they were giving up on our country. They were a new government and their choice was based on the fact that if they didn't sign it then the Allies would have invaded the country which would be worse for us, the people of Germany. They also weren't being cowards when they gave our land away. They were forced to do these things and just giving in to what the Allies wanted was the best decision they could make. This land was also rightfully the property of countries that we had taken away from before the war. Either way they were faced with horrible things that would happen to our country, and I believe they picked the lesser of the two evils. Also, you talk about how there was a loss of jobs, but people's lives would have been completely destryed if an invasion occured. The Weimar Government was not full of poor leadership, but rather they had good intentions but just came in to rule at a very bad time for any government in our country.
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