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The First World War didn’t just end with a ceasefire for Germany; it ended with the complete shattering of its political system. The Kaiser was gone, the empire had vanished, and a fragile new republic had been declared amidst chaos and revolution. Understanding this profound political collapse is one of the most important and fascinating parts of the AQA Germany course. An essay on this topic requires you to be a political analyst, tracing how the pressures of total war first warped, then broke, the German state. This guide will show you how to explain this chain of events. We…