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Mainly it was the great depression being ultimately responsible for the rise of the Nazis and the communists at the time. [/url]
Of course, remember the Great Depression wasn't the first time the Weimar Republic's economy tanked. Part of the terms Germany had to submit to in the Treaty of Versailles was they had to foot the bill for WW1, a bill that took several years just to tabulate. Eventually, they had to keep printing more and more money just so they could keep up with the payments, which led to the Mark becoming useless and, at the height of inflation, workers had to be paid multiple times every day just so they could be sure that, by the time mealtime came, the money wouldn't be worthless.
To solve this, they came upon the Dawes Plan, and the US had to loan Germany money to pay their debts, and when the US economy tanked, Germany's had to tank as well.
About the Churchill quote, the only references I could find to it all referred to the movie, which usually is a sign that it was made up, but it wouldn't surprise me if he actually said something like that, likely more slagging off the percieved wishy-washy nature of the appeasers in his party (forgetting that it was mostly due to their buying time that Britain was even able to prepare to fight the Nazis) than truly praising Hitler.
Mainly it was the great depression being ultimately responsible for the rise of the Nazis and the communists at the time. [/url]
Of course, remember the Great Depression wasn't the first time the Weimar Republic's economy tanked. Part of the terms Germany had to submit to in the Treaty of Versailles was they had to foot the bill for WW1, a bill that took several years just to tabulate. Eventually, they had to keep printing more and more money just so they could keep up with the payments, which led to the Mark becoming useless and, at the height of inflation, workers had to be paid multiple times every day just so they could be sure that, by the time mealtime came, the money wouldn't be worthless.
To solve this, they came upon the Dawes Plan, and the US had to loan Germany money to pay their debts, and when the US economy tanked, Germany's had to tank as well.
About the Churchill quote, the only references I could find to it all referred to the movie, which usually is a sign that it was made up, but it wouldn't surprise me if he actually said something like that, likely more slagging off the percieved wishy-washy nature of the appeasers in his party (forgetting that it was mostly due to their buying time that Britain was even able to prepare to fight the Nazis) than truly praising Hitler.
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