1923 Germany: How Hyperinflation Created Hitler

Описание: In 1923, a loaf of bread cost 200 billion German marks. Workers were paid twice a day so they could sprint to shops before their wages became worthless. Children played with stacks of million-mark notes because the paper was worth more as a toy than as currency.

Within a decade, Adolf Hitler was the Chancellor of Germany. Within two decades, 70 million people were dead.

These events are not separate chapters of history. They are cause and effect. The hyperinflation did not just precede Hitler; it created the conditions that made him possible. It destroyed the middle class. It humiliated a generation. It taught Germans that the system had betrayed them and that radical solutions were necessary.

This is the story of what really caused Hitler's rise to power, and how a government chose the printing press over difficult choices, paving the road to the deadliest war in human history.


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