J14P11 Qn 9(c) Examiner Report

(c) This question required candidates to explain whether the Weimar Republic was able to deal successfully with Germany’s problems between 1922 and 1929. Explanations focused upon Stresemann’s success in improving the economy and on gaining international acceptance of Germany, and, on the other side of the argument, the suffering caused by hyperinflation, and the illusion that Germany’s economic problems had been solved. There were many well-argued responses with detailed explanations on both sides of the debate. In other responses, candidates wrote about Germany’s problems during World War One and then Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s – both of which are outside the time scale of the question.