The Weimar Republic
The post-World War I era to Hitler's election as chancellor in 1933 are sometimes forgotten since the development of the Third Reich looms so large in German history. The national assembly met in Weimar after Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated to design a new constitution, which was enacted in February 1919. In the same year that Germany ratified women's suffrage, cultural views such as tolerance for LGBT people started to spread. There is now a welfare system in place.
The Weimar Republic had the unfortunate fate to inherit an economy that was seriously endangered, and by 1923 hyperinflation was posing a survival threat to the new government. The day was only temporarily rescued by the introduction of the new Rentenmark currency, which was backed by America. However, it did maintain a strong welfare state for purportedly pure-blooded Aryans. When the American economy collapsed in 1929, it also destroyed the Republican economy with it, permitting the Nazi rise through parliament and the loss of most of those civil rights.
- Time: November 1918
