Fuck Man....When GERMANY Accuses You of War Crimes

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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.

Yeah, all that is true and there has been a lot of unrest going on all through the years of the Weimar republic. But the Nazis were a fringe movement up until 1930 when the economy tanked for good.

All the other crisis like the hyper inflation of 1923 could be averted by clever politicians and all through the 20ies, the German economy did pretty well. Remember, Berlin was one of the places to be at the time, only rivaled by Paris when it came to culture and openess.

This doesn't change that the people in their majority resented the treaty of Versailes. There's a reason why this was the main talking point of the far right and the far left as well.

Here are the results of the ballots to the "Reichstag" from 1919 to 1933. You can see, the NSDAP rose from 2,6% in 1928 to 18,3 in 1930. That's a direct result of the great depression. Also note that the years between 1920 to 1928 were the most stable years of the republic with elections every four years, despite the hyper inflation falling into that period.