Editing History of Germany (section)

=== Overview ===
Under the peace terms of the [[Treaty of Versailles]], Germany's first democracy began its fourteen-year life facing territorial losses, [[World War I reparations|reparations to the victors]] of World War I and stringent limitations on its military. Political violence from those on the Right who wanted a return to the monarchy and those on the Left who wanted a soviet-style regime repeatedly threatened the moderate socialist government through 1923. Ongoing issues with state finances, impacted by war debt and the funding of striking workers in the Ruhr, fuelled the [[Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic|hyperinflation of 1923]] that impoverished many Germans and left them bitter enemies of the Republic. A period of relative political and economic stability that lasted until the onset of the [[Great Depression]] in 1929 was followed by the rapid growth of parties on the extremes – the [[Communist Party of Germany|Communists]] on the Left and the [[Nazism|Nazis]] on the Right – that left the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]] (parliament) all but unable to function. In quick succession, four [[Chancellor of Germany#First German Republic (Weimar Republic, 1919–1933)|chancellors]] tried and failed to govern by decree before [[President Hindenburg]] named [[Adolf Hitler]] chancellor in 1933. In only a few months he had turned the Republic into a Nazi dictatorship.