A Period of Calm, 1925–1929

Abstract

For a brief four year period, a semblance of normality — so desperately sought by most Germans — returned to society. These years saw less of the strife, extremism, and emotional uproar which had existed at such a fever pitch during the years from 1919 to 1924. The bitter taste of defeat was repressed, the turmoil of revolution settled briefly into relative calm, the inflation became a nightmare to be forgotten, the Ruhr occupation was settled and the occupation of the left-bank of the Rhine by Allied troops was glossed over, reparations consciously agitated only a small minority. The concerted impact of all of these was blunted; they were pressed into the background within Germany. The primary fact in Germany was the surge of prosperity.