Will the country really get richer when all German workers become billionaires? Even before Hitler came to power, Germany was already in extreme trouble.
The failure to pay reparations gave France a pretext to capture the Ruhr industrial area. At home, the frenzied printing of the Weimar Republic and the worldwide economic crisis made the hard-earned savings of the German people disappear in an instant.
In January 1933, Hitler, with his excellent oratorical skills, won the support of the masses and the big capitalists, ran for chancellor of Germany, and gradually went down the road to fascism.
How did he single-handedly make the whole country rich? And how did the German people and the whole world get caught up in the whirlpool of war? Today, let's take a look at these topics.
At the end of World War I, Germany was defeated and forced to sign an unequal agreement with the Entente powers, which massively weakened and divided Germany's military power, territory, and colonies.
The German people were angry and dissatisfied with this, but ** were weak and incompetent and failed to meet the people's demands for resistance. Eventually, Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919, which became a pain in the hearts of the German people, just like the patriotic youth who opposed the signing of the 21st Article in the May Fourth Movement, and their anger and dissatisfaction did not change the reality.
The signing of the Treaty of Versailles had a profound impact on Germany, which lost a large amount of territory, population, and resources on the European continent. In order to repay the huge reparations, the Weimar Republic started the mode of printing marks in a frenzy, hoping to pay off the reparations in one lump sum in this way.
Malicious inflation, ignorance of the laws of the economy, has caused the German people great suffering. Before the First World War, one dollar was worth 4.2 marks, but by the fourth year after the Treaty of Versailles, one dollar was worth 4.2 billion marks.
The high-denomination marks printed in the Weimar Republic were not recognized by the Allies, so they resorted to delaying tactics in the hope of delaying as much time as possible. They think it's the uncle who borrowed the money, so they don't want to pay back anyone's money first.
In addition, they have a deep feud with the French, so the money owed to France is not so important. The French side understood that Germany would not pay it easily, and offered to use timber to repay the loan, but Germany still said that it could not repay it on time.
Eventually, the French Chancellor had no patience and on 11 January 1923 sent troops to occupy the Ruhr, a heavy industrial area in Germany.
After a war, Germany faced the problem of reparations. To this end, the Entente countries borrowed 800 million marks from Germany, which Germany needed to repay in a rolling interest manner, and the amount to be repaid each year increased year by year, eventually reaching a staggering amount of 2.5 billion gold marks per year.
This way of repaying debts has put Germany in economic trouble. In order to solve this problem, the Entente adopted the method of encouraging Germany to consume ahead of time, and further squeezed German interests.
However, Germany's economic problems were not completely solved until an Austrian named Hitler appeared, who, through his dream of becoming a painter, became the leader of Germany, and through his efforts, finally solved Germany's economic woes.
Hitler's early life was full of wanderlust and hunger, and he was well aware of the hardships of the proletariat. His quest for money drove him to join the German Reserve Corps after World War I, but his dreams of military success were shattered.
In order to find a way to have a voice, he joined the Political Press Bureau of the Second Corps in Munich, where he came into contact with many political parties. During a mission to investigate the German Workers' Party, Hitler found his true belonging.
He joined the party and, through his oratorical talents, raised a start-up capital of 300 marks for the newly founded small party, the Nazi Party.
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Hitler's life was full of drama. He was once an obscure wandering painter, but an autobiography called Mein Kampf turned his fate upside down.
This book not only lifted him out of poverty, but also made him a millionaire and the author of best-selling books translated into German. However, Hitler was not satisfied with these achievements.
He believed that the Weimar Republic had lost the hearts and minds of the people, and he decided to take action to change the status quo. Late one night, he held a rally in a beer hall and staged a coup d'état to coerce the local political head to declare war on the republic.
The result of this coup d'état, although unsuccessful, put Hitler in the spotlight. He used this as an opportunity to show the crowd that it was a good time to eliminate the rule of the Weimar Republic.
Although the event ended in failure, it allowed Hitler to grow in influence and become an important force in German politics.
Hitler attempted to overthrow the regime, but failed in a hasty armed force**. Despite the life-and-death crisis, his debating skills earned him a five-year life sentence for his actions.
The outcome of the trial greatly enhanced his prestige in the eyes of the German people. After being released from prison, Hitler cherished life even more, and even had time to write his autobiography "Mein Kampf", which expounded his unique views on history, politics, and national issues.
However, he did not mention the failed beer hall coup.
Mein Kampf was an attempt after Hitler was released from prison, when publishers saw Hitler's potential and traffic, and the two sides cooperated to price the book at 12 marks, twice as much as similar books.
However, the initial sales of the book were not ideal because it was not very interesting. But by 1930, as the popularity of the Nazi Party grew, many of Hitler's fanatical fans began buying Mein Kampf in order to learn more about the political icon.
In order to meet the needs of the market, the publisher duly launched a paperback edition of 8 marks, which led to a sharp increase in sales and financial freedom for Hitler. When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, the sales of "Mein Kampf" soared to more than 1 million, and a hardcover version of the newlyweds was also launched.
At the wedding, Hitler became a millionaire by writing the book Mein Kampf and became the most widely circulated holder of German-language books. The book sold more than 6 million copies before the outbreak of World War II, allowing Hitler to buy the first Mercedes in his life.
In 1929, an economic crisis triggered by Wall Street plunged Germany into a deep crisis. At this time, about eight million workers, clerks and civil servants lost their jobs, and a quarter of the population was subsisting on fifteen marks per month.
However, it was at this difficult moment that Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany, leading Germany out of the economic crisis and towards the path of militarization.
In the midst of the Great Depression of 1929, changemakers were constantly looking for a way out and constantly looking for innovation. Whoever has the ability to lead the German people through the difficult times will become the hero of the country.
In Germany in January 1933, it was against this background that Hitler, with the support of the big capitalists, became the chancellor of Germany.
The campaign promises to reduce unemployment, raise living standards, and allow everyone to have bread and a job are the promises made by Hitler to the German people. In fact, he did solve the bread problem of some Germans after coming to power.
In order to restore the German economy, Hitler took a series of actions, including "Do not pay back!" refused to pay the remaining war reparations in order to ease the shackles imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles.
This hard-line attitude was met with the sympathy of the German population and the enthusiastic support of the majority of the population.
Hitler's sacred position in the eyes of the German people was stabilized by a series of reforms. In order to address the problem of unemployment, industrial reforms, including appropriations, the issuance of bonds, direct investment and tax cuts, have led to the absorption of the unemployed.
In terms of social policy, large-scale public labour works and related regulations, such as the "Marriage Loan" Act, the Youth Compulsory Labor Act, and the Universal Compulsory Military Service System, have helped to achieve full employment for workers.
At the same time, in order to solve the problems of the poor people, the "Sunday Stew Meeting" and the "Winter Relief Campaign" were launched to help them get through difficult times. Before Hitler came to power, the number of unemployed in Germany had reached 6 million, but by September 1936 this figure had fallen to 1.6 million.
In order to ensure the survival and development of the German nation, Hitler advocated that Germany must expand outward in order to gain living space, and through large-scale arms expansion, Germany was led onto the road of militarization.
In its war of aggression, Nazi Germany frantically plundered the wealth of the occupied countries to meet their military needs. They confiscated the bank's and foreign exchange, carried out a frenzied robbery of the occupied territories, plundered all kinds of raw materials, scrap iron, machinery and grain to meet their war consumption.
These acts demonstrated the greed and brutality of Nazi Germany.
Hitler's brutal rule sparked fierce revolts from the people of the occupied territories, and the brutal acts of plunder were not sustainable. Beginning in the autumn of 1940, Nazi Germany used various methods of capital accumulation in the occupied territories, such as financial exploitation, hard labor, and various forms of cash fines.
For example, when the rule of the occupied territories is stabilized, fiscal taxes are collected from the occupied countries immediately. Hitler's successive victories in the war made him even more arrogant, and he continued to wage wars all over Europe, eventually dragging the German people into the abyss of war.
Hitler's Germany suffered successive defeats in the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of El Alamein, and the Battle of Kursk, which led to the loss of millions of soldiers, as well as the intensification of fear, despair, and defeat in the hearts of the German people.
Although the Nazi regime before this had given small favors, these could not hide its reactionary nature. With the devouring of a large amount of national wealth, the rule of the Third Reich gradually lost the support of the people, and more and more people threw themselves into the camp of anti-fascism.
Eventually, Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945, when defeat was assured. In a worldwide economic crisis, the rule of the Weimar Republic was thrown into chaos, and the Treaty of Versailles dealt a devastating blow to the German economy, eventually leading to the collapse of the financial system.
The crisis has led to a sharp increase in unemployment and social unrest in Germany. It was at the time of these two economic downturns that Hitler rose to prominence by founding the Nazi Party and rising to the pinnacle of power in Germany.
He once drew a grand blueprint for the German people, but in the end he personally pulled the German people into the abyss of suffering.