How the Depression helped Hitler come to power
The coming of world depression following the Wall Street Crash is explored, with banks calling in loans all over the world. Weimar Germany was particularly affected because of the Dawes Plan. Unemployment rose dramatically from 1.5 to 6 million between 1929 and 1932. The Weimar Government was seen as not being decisive enough and was hampered by proportional representation, which meant that no one party had overall majority. A period of shifting coalitions and social problems followed.
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