Rise Of Adolf Hitler And The Great Depression

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Adolf Hitler rose to power by taking advantage of the World Wars, and the Great Depression. On Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed. The Germans were in a war debt of $33,000,000,000. It says in the article The Aftermath of WW1 Leading to the Great Depression, that they printed an abundance of money, but this led to severe inflation. According to the text of the article, The Rise of Adolf Hitler, “German workers were laid off. Along with this, banks failed throughout Germany. Savings accounts, the result of years of hard work, were completely wiped out. Also in this article, it says “....they were cast into poverty and deep misery and began looking for a solution, any solution. Adolf Hitler knew his opportunity had arrived.”

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