The end of World War 1 ended with Germany surrendering in November of 1918. In 1919, the leader of Germany at the time signed the Treaty of Versailles which caused Germany to lose various territories, it demilitarized the country and forced Germany to pay a lot of money for reparations. After Germany's defeat, German leaders made a new government known as the Weimar Republic which is a democratic government. With this new government in charge, Germans got new freedoms which included women were allowed to vote, there was a Bill of Rights, and they were able to from political parties. There were problems within the Weimar Republic that made it nearly impossible to form a coalition, paying large reparations negatively impacted the economy and they were blamed for lose of pride in the country. They had economic problems which caused rampant inflation and falling behind of payments as mandated in the Treaty of Versailles. Germany wanted to blame someone for their problems, so they started to scapegoat the Jews. Germans wanted to look to extremist leaders to solve their problems since it seemed the Weimar republic was unable to.
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