A-Level European history: The Weimar Republic

Teaching the Weimar Republic is rather like teaching the voyage of the Titanic. However much you stress the strengths of the Weimar vessel, they just can't wait to see it sink into the Nazi sea. I have found this problem to be so bad that many of them perceive the ‘Hitler iceberg' as the only point of interest in the whole study unit. I wanted to devise a programme of study which would alert them to the complexity of Weimar politics and tackle the problem of their perception of boring inevitability.