Homework – BOTH due Fri 19 Sep 1. Complete the newspaper article “ACTIVITY” on Walsh p Go to YouTube. Search “Hitler – Rise of Evil”. Watch the first 48 minutes. Take notes as you watch, especially on Hitler’s early life, experiences in WW1 and his development of the Nazi party & replacement of Anton Drexler as Nazi leader.
STARTER Think of and list at least 3 things that have become more expensive in your lifetime…
10p 25p 15p 65p 70p 65p INFLATION
THE 3 CRISES OF 1923 CRISES I & II
First President of Democratic Germany (The Weimar Republic)? Which party did he lead? EBERT – a member of the Socialist Party (SPD)
Financial penalty imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles? £6.6 billion
What did the ToV say about the Rhineland in the West of Germany? Germany after WW1 France Germany troops (military) not allowed into the Rhineland
The plan for today... … explain the first 2 crises of 1923 … analyse a number of primary sources from this year
After a very difficult start – including the Sparatcist Revolt of 1919 (Left-wing revolt) and Kapp Putsch of 1920 (Right-wing revolt) – things started to settle down in Germany… … but in 1923 everything went horribly wrong, putting Ebert’s Government under huge pressure… … like many events in History, Germany’s problems in 1923 were mainly about money … Uh oh…
CRISIS 1 : THE OCCUPATION OF THE RUHR Germany paid its first ToV payment in 1921… … but in 1922 it fell behind… … in Jan 1923 French & Belgian troops marched into the Ruhr – the heartland of German industry – and seized all the factories and mines there What options did Ebert have? How could he have responded?
Hyperinflation – Germany 1923
THE WEIMAR GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE… The Gov. told all Germans in the Ruhr not to cooperate with the French. Everyone went on strike… But it felt it had to keep paying them. This cost a lot of money… … but the Gov. now had no income from the Ruhr… … so soon it ran out of real money…
CRISIS 2: HYPERINFLATION … after running out of money the Gov. simply printed more… … but people lost confidence in it and prices shot sky high… … by Nov 1923 the Germany currency was worthless and the German economy had collapsed
Berlin, 24 th June 1919
This banknote was issued in Berlin on the 1 st February 1923.
10 th August 1923
25 th September 1923
10 th October 1923
Some people collected their wages in suitcases… … there is a well-known story of one person leaving his suitcase for a minute before coming back and finding a thief had stolen his suitcase … but not the money inside it!
SOURCEFACTS / IDEAS ABOUT HYPERINFLATION AND THE INVASION OF THE RUHR A B C D E F G Around the room are 7 primary sources. Find them and fill in your table. Write down one or more facts and ideas that they tell you about hyperinflation and the invasion of the Ruhr.
Learning Outcomes By the end of the lesson, we will be able to… … explain the first 2 crises of 1923 … analyse a number of primary sources from this year
TASK A German poster from The writing says “No! You cant force/subdue me!” Why was this poster published in 1923? Explain your answer using you own knowledge. CONTENT (what you see) CONTEXT (what you know) PROVENANCE (viewpoint)
Learning Outcomes By the end of the lesson, we will be able to… … explain the first 2 crises of 1923 … analyse a number of primary sources from this year
REVIEW!! -Were the French justified in invading the Ruhr? -Could the Weimar Government have done anything else? -What problems did the German Government face by Nov 1923?
Hitler in World War I