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To what extent was the Great Depression responsible for the collapse of the Weimar Republic?
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Alex
The Great Depression produced a period of hyperinflation in Weimar Germany which drastically reduced living standards.
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Cons
Pro claim 1
Alex
By 1932,
6.1 million
Germans were unemployed.
Alex
Con claim 1
Alex
Hyperinflation existed in Germany in
the 1920s
, before the Great Depression, yet fascism did not become ascendant until several years later.
Alex
