Was the Weimar Republic Doomed from the Start?
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... bbed in the back“ and deserved better. After the initial highs of the new government, things started to go downhill. This was because of the new system, proportional representation. It meant that any party could get into the government. This caused constant disruption in changes to the government because of re-elections. The new government could not settle down and this caused it to run quite badly. Another factor, which disrupted the government, was the rising of extremist parties. Parties or organizations like the Spartacists. They disagreed with a lot of what Ebert did and wanted more done for the poor. To try and achieve these things, they had violent uprisings in Berlin (Spartacist, 1919 and the Kapp Putsch, March ...
