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How Germany’s financial collapse led to Nazism

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. 

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  1. Robert Nowak

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

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