Traitors have betrayed us. That's why we lost the war. You need a scapegoat for that. The Jews were a scapegoat.
So that was the beginning- that Hitler blamed this ignominious defeat on his political opponents. And then the peak of this early period of crisis- from 1918 to 1923, Weimar was plagued with crisis- was the hyperinflation.
In the great inflation of 1923, you need billions of marks to be able to get a loaf of bread. It didn't pay to work, because your money was losing value every hour of every day. And the entire middle class was wiped out.
It's not a coincidence that Hitler attempts to seize power in November 1923, the peak of the hyperinflation. And he sees this as an opportunity- that Weimar has become so chaotic, the downward spiral has gone so far, that that's when he undertakes the Beer Hall Putsch.
Hitler and about 2,000 supporters attempted to stage a coup in which they took control of Munich. It ended in a confrontation which resulted in the death of 16 Nazis and four German policemen. And Hitler was arrested and charged with treason two days later.
The Putsch failed. He then was sentenced to jail. But he was treated in jail like a bit of a celebrity, and not treated with harshness, and not put away for a very long time. In jail, he wrote Mein Kampf- my battle, my struggle- which was his blueprint. He told us what he was going to do. And then he did it.
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RISE OF WORLD LEADERS
Non-FictionIn this book we discuss about the leaders who had significant impact on the history of mankind. 1.....Napoléon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 - 5 May 1821), usually referred to as simply Napoleon in English, was a French...
