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| Topic | Does anyone know German history post WW2? How did the nazis stop being nazis? |
| Firewerx 01/10/21 1:02:30 PM #16: | UnfairRepresent posted... The Nazis only took off because post war Germany was shit. Hitler and WW2 gave everyone work and a purpose.Despite communist uprisings, the Allied occupation of the Ruhr and Rheinland, hyperinflation, and the first few painful years of the Weimar economy when Germany actually made genuine attempts to pay reparations, the most popular party in Germany from 1920 to 1929 remained the centre-left SPD. Meanwhile, the Nazis' share of the vote in federal elections had been in decline since 1924 and sank to a feeble 2.6% in May 1928. So either it wasn't just the length of the lines for soup kitchens that brought the Nazis to power, or the Weimar economy wasn't actually in such terrible shape for most of its life. (The Republic's rebound from the recession of winter 1926-27 saw a twelve-month growth rate higher than any achieved during the Third Reich.) --- Incinerate ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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