The failure of the Weimar Republic has always been a contentious issue due to the events that followed its demise. As in 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. The following will discuss the failure of The Weimar Republic and Hitler's role.

We will discuss the failure of the Weimar Republic in relation to political, economic, and social factors. This audiobook will be divided into five sections based around the Treaty of Versailles and the establishment, the Weimar Constitution, the economic problems up until 1923, the role of political parties and individuals, and the Wall Street Crash coupled with the ensuing Great Depression.

We will look at the facts and argue; which causal factor was most detrimental in the failure of Weimar and Hitler's following rise to power. It will be discussed that this was the Great Depression, along with other contributing factors, but without the Great Depression, none were large enough to cause Weimar to fail.

Historian, Nicholls argues that one of the most damning effects placed upon the new democratic state was the "political legacy of the Wilhelmine Empire", which placed great emphasis upon a "widespread acceptance amongst the upper-class elites of ethnic nationalism in which the nation-state overruled everything, from individual rights to international trade and harmony".

This ethnic nationalism was spread through society during the Great War, the comradely of the front line through life in the trenches, and the home front through the hardships endured. The victimization that Germany felt after the war also contributed towards this feeling. The Great War started Weimar Germany on a difficult footing. The effects of traditional Germanic authoritarian society coupled with the radical ideas imposed upon Germany had terrible consequences for the newly formed democratic state.