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How Germany’s financial collapse led to Nazism

1931

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The summer of 1931 saw Germany’s financial collapse, one of the biggest economic catastrophes of modern history. The German crisis contributed to the rise of the Nazi Party. The timeline below shows historic events that led up to Adolf Hitler’s taking control of Germany.

Featured image credit: The SA in Berlin in 1932. . Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-P049500 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. 

Tobias Straumann is an associate professor of economic history at the University of Zurich. He is a member of the European Historical Economics Society and the academic council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History. Straumann has widely published in the area of twentieth-century European financial and monetary history, and is the author of Fixed Ideas of Money: Small States and Exchange Rate Regimes in Twentieth-Century Europe(Cambridge University Press, 2010), and co-author of The Value of Risk: Swiss Re and the History of Reinsurance (Oxford University Press, 2013).

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  1. Robert Nowak

    Gee, you’d think people would have noticed this before!?

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