Great Depression In Germany Essay

The after math of World War I left many unsatisfied the way the war was settled, Germany was no exception. After Germany had to except defeat to the Triple Entente and consequentially sign the Treaty of Versailles, which called for mass war reparations that this emerging nation would not be able to economically recover from, then soon thereafter lead to the Greatest Depression in Europe during the time. The Nazi party was especially enraged by these outcomes and were determined to change Germany, and the rest of the world to their Aryan ideals. By the time resentment of the Treaty of Versailles became rampant across Germany, Adolf Hitler had just assumed power over the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, the official name of the Nazi

Hitler got promoted to leader because he could get people to listen to his eerily hypnotic voice. With these two attributes at hand, Hitler had the potential to overthrow a government however, very few agreed with him during the late 1910’s while social and economic conditions were stable. In 1929 Wall Street crashed in the United States, along with them they brought Germany down. Unable to pay their reparations, Germany spiraled into depression. This international Great Depression, “affected all classes in Germany, not just the factory workers” (2). Hitler along with the Nazi Party took this opportunity and blamed the Weimar Republic, who he was convinced were all Jewish for their inability to revive Germany’s economic state. This blame played to the ears of all social classes, as a reason to unite and ease this new stress that was laid on them, they all began to rally behind a new cause, a new hope which was found through the radical Nazi party. This would not have been achieved if it was not for business owners who resented the other popular party at the time, communism, who funded Hitler’s propaganda. This propaganda that the Nazis used was unavoidable it was