"Account for the failure of Democracy in Germany in the period 1918-1934" The failure of democracy in Germany in the period 1918-1934 can be attributed to the many factors that contributed to the volatile political climate during this time and a German economy impacted by the harsh, impossible terms of the Versailles Treaty. These factors were disastrously compounded by the fall of Wall Street and the subsequent world depression leaving a fragile republic to flounder …showed first 75 words of 1849 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1849 total…and democracy, embracing Hitler and his authoritarian conservative government as the panacea to German pride and hope for a better future. The role of the military and its undermining of democracy in its grab for consolidation of power, nationalism and the role of various political forces and the Great Depression ensured a clean path for right wing extremist Nazis when the experiment for democracy in post -Kaiser Germany the Weimar republic was tried and failed.