Factors of the rise of Hitler

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Factors of the rise of Hitler

The treaty of Versailles, 22 June 1919.This only dealt with Germany. The peace treaty imposed upon Germany at Versailles by the victorious allies was an impossible burden for a country already crippled by the human and material cost of the war. The prospect for a success was weak.

The allies maintained their naval blockade while their armies threatened to resume their attacks on German forces if the German Government refused to accept the treaty 1919-1920.

Shortage of materials and food 1918 – 1920

French occupation of Saar 1919 – 1926

Hyperinflation 1922 – 1923 had been a latent threat to the republic since 1918, but in mid April 1923 the German mark collapsed and by August the exchange rate stood at four and a half million marks to the American dollar. In 1918 £1 was worth 20 marks in 1923 £1 was worth 20 000 000 000 000 marks.  Two women were going to the bank with a washing basket filled with notes, they passed a shop and saw a crowd standing round a window, so put down the basket when they turned around all the notes were there but someone had stole the basket this happened in Berlin 1923.

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Germany because of the war guilt clause, was blamed for the war had to pay an astronomical sum in reparations £6,600 million demanded by the allies as reparations for war damages in May 1921 but by 1923 the government fell behind with the payments because it was short of money.

Army and navy reduced 1919

Anarchy in cities 1920 – 1923.

SA members were provided with a distinctive Brown shirt emblazoned with the swastika in 1924 – 1945

 Paramilitary organisations 1924 – 1945

Weak Weimar Republic 1919 – 1933 The new prosperity depended on American loans, and if they stopped German industries would collapse.

Strong leadership

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