Economic Depression and Hitlers Rise to Power Essay -- European Histo

Economics Depression and Hitlers Rise to Power The economic impression 1923 & 1929, contributed to Hitlers rise to power in many ways. The first thing that direct to the economic crisis was when the German economy collapsed, as a result of the clinical depression and low employment. This was a result of the Treaty of Versailles that forced Germany to pay reparations to the allies. The German people protested that it was an intolerable strain on the economy, but the German presidency ignored it. The German government did their best to play for time and to pull off concessions from the allies, but because the French were quite impatient and also had to pay state of war debts to the USA they wanted there money back, so French and Belgium army invaded the Rhur, in the Rhineland to take German goods and raw materials. This made the Germans very furious and because of this as well as the strikes where the German people refused to work, money became otios e and there was chaos round the whole country. Hyperinflation then set in. At the same...