German Civilization (Lesson 4: The Decline of the Weimar Republic and the Rise of the Nazi Party) - Essay Example

The German leaders of the government who, in November 1918, signed the Armistice were denounced by the advocates as the ‘November Criminals’. The legend was made an integral part of the official history of the Nazis of the 1920 when they got to power in 1933. Through this, they were able to portray the Weimar Republic as having been the work of the ‘November Criminals’ that were trying to seize power and betray the nation through ‘stabbing in the back’. This propaganda by the Nazi gave a picture of Weimar as degeneracy, a morass of corruption, cruel persecution of the honest, fourteen years of rule by Marxists, ‘cultural Bolsheviks’ and Jews, who had eventually been swept away by Adolf Hitler through National Socialist Movement and the ‘national revolution’ victory of