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Were the years 1924-1929 - A Golden Era for Germany?

Hindenburg

Became president in1925. He was a war 

leader and supporter of the Kaiser. 

The Nazi PartyWas band from April 1924 -1925.Hitler was released at the end of1924. He reorganised the party

with regional branches.Membership rose from 27,000 to

108,000 in 1927. The SA werereorganised and headquarters were

set up in Munich.

Farmers were suffering dueto falling agricultural prices.

Many faced a debt crisis.

The average person

Had very few savings afterthe economic crisis of 1923.

Unemployment  Industrial ProductionB y 1930, Germany was once againone of the world·s great industrialnations. B y 1929 iron, steel, coalchemcials and electrical products

had all matched or beaten the 1913production figures. During this

period 25,000 million marks wereinvested into Germany by the

Americans.

The Young plan ± 1929

The Young Plan was an agreementbetween the Germans and theAmericans, British, and French.The Young Plan expanded the loanprogram of the Dawes Plan, and

also lowered Germany·s reparationspayments under the Treaty ofVersailles.

The Grand CoalitionIn 1928 the SDP gained 153 0f the491 seats, which was not enough to

be a majority. The Grand Coalition included the SDP, German

Democratic Party, Centre Party andthe German People's Party.

The Locarno Pact - 1925Great Britain, France, Germany,

Italy, Belgium, Poland, andCzechoslovakia participated in the

Locarno Conferences inSwitzerland. They agreed to usediplomatic measures in order to

sort out their problems. The

treaties would assure that thefrontiers between Germany andFrance and between Germany andBelgium be kept. This enabled

Germany to join the League ofNations in the following year. 

The Dawes Plan - 1924was the result of negotiations betweenGermany and the US Government. Theplan allowed the co-ordination of

reparations repayments, makingthese more manageable. This involvedpaying reduced payments until 1929.

This large reduction in reparations 

payments was accompanied by a loan of$200 million from the US government.

The new Rentenmark was valued at1 Rentenmark to One Trillion old

marks. Inflation ceased to be aproblem, the German peopleaccepted the value of the newcurrency and businesses acceptedit as being of worth.

Cultural µhigh time¶From 1923-1933 Germany becamefamous for its cafe culture, it·s

 jazz-clubs, it·s cabaret-shows,nightclubs, jazz-bands, popular

music, crooners, a-capella harmony-groups and a rising film-industry.

The 1927 German film ´Metropolisµwas one of the most famous films

to come out of Germany in thistime.

Bauhaus Revolutionary school of art,

architecture and design

established by the pioneer modernarchitect Walter Gropius at

Weimar in Germany in 1919. Itsteaching method replaced the

traditional pupil-teacherrelationship with the idea of acommunity of artists working

together. Its aim was to bring artback into contact with everyday

life.

 New objectivity ± an artistic

movement.A German modern realist artistic

movement developed. The two keyartists were Otto Dix and George

Grosz. In their paintings anddrawings they vividly depicted and

showed their dislike for thecorruption, frantic pleasure seeking

and general demoralisation ofGermany following its defeat in the

war.

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