Complex sentence: After 1924, economic hardship began slowly to diminish, and a measure of brittle stability returned to Germany under the Weimar State--the appeal of Rhenish separatism, never a mass movement, was damaged by the violence employed by many of its more desperate supporters.
Split into simpler sentences: After 1924, economic hardship began slowly to diminish and a measure of brittle stability returned to Germany under the Weimar State. The appeal of Rhenish separatism, never a mass movement, was damaged by the violence employed by many of its more desperate supporters.