How Did The Great Depression Contribute To The Rise Of Hitler

Hitler’s rise to power was slow in the beginning, but quickly gained traction in post WWI. Some of the major things that contributed to Hitler’s rise, was Global Depression, the Weimar Republic and the history of Jewish discrimination in Europe. These things contributed greatly to Hitler and the rise of the Nazi Party. Global Depression was one of the effects on the world after WWI. Many countries after WWI were in a severe period of economic depression because of all the war debts that they had established throughout the war. Germany was greatly affected by this because they were borrowing money from America during that time period, and America went into the Great Depression which then led to them not being able to lend Germany anymore money. Germany needed this money to pay off its war debts. This depression did not just effect the German government it affected the German people as well. This depression led to banks closing, German people being laid off of work, inflation rising rapidly, and a failing economy. With all of these economic disasters that were happening in Germany after WWI people were beginning to become open to …show more content…
In these books Hitler stated his beliefs that the Jews were destroying the German culture, even though the Jews were applying the German culture into their everyday lives, the only real reason Hitler hated the Jews was because they did not believe that Jesus was the savior, and that went against Hitler’s beliefs. Hitler also filled his book with his hatred for the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler released this book at the perfect time because at that time the idea that the Treaty of Versailles was brutal towards Germany was a fresh new idea. No real politician at the time was against the treaty and Hitler was one of the first to come out against it. These books brought out new extremist ideas and brought support to the Nazi