The Great Depression and Germany

The Great Depression is one of the worst times of all 20th century. The Great Depression, was an economic global breakdown and it affected many countries and their governments. Many countries were starving and as a result the governments of the countries had to issue ration tickets for food to the people. The Great Depression also impact, unemployment, the uprising of people, the rise of nationalism and the Nazi party.

The Treaty of Versailles, made things even tougher than they already were. They had to pay reparations to the Allies for WWI. Germany had a really bad economic crisis at that time. The Germany’s only solution was to keep printing money in order to pay their debts. The result of this act was to decrease the value of the German mark. Hyperinflation, hitted Germany. The Government made a huge amount of printed money, that some people started burning them to keep themselves warm. Printed money became worthless.

Also during the Great Depression, brought huge numbers of unemployment rates in Germany. Germany’ alone, had over of 6.2 million people unemployed. The unemployment, was consistanly growing. The result of this high rates, made the people question themselves, how helpful was there government, as they couldn’t help there people by finding jobs. The people weren’t happy with the results of their governments, so they started thinking of other types of Government because of the huge problems that they had.

As the people didn’t want to live that way and change their governments, outbreaks, started to occur. In 1932, an outbreak took place in konigsburg in Prussia. After the elections of August 1, Nazis, showed their region of terror. The Nazis, started destroyed cities and breaking shops because they failed to obtain majority into the elections. They started burning socialist newspaper offices and gasoline stations. They were ripping apart cities. The Nazis, also murdered, Socialist and Communist leaders in their own homes.

The Great Depression brought up many ideas about new types of government. The Socialist and Communist parties, weren’t as common and popular as the Democratic Party. It was the most popular and loved by all. The Communist and the Socialist Parties were unpopular and only had a few number of followers. The Germans believed that the most responsible party to take over there government was the democrat group.

Because of the bad reputation that the German Government accomplish through the problems of hyperinflation that they had, Nazi and Communist parties, became more popular. The Nazi and Communist parties, had two different ideologies. The Nazi s’ idea was based on Nationalism and it blamed the Allies for the harsh reparations of WWI. It also hated the Jewish people that were rich and controlling some of the economy of the country. The Communist party, had to do with the unemployment group of people, which they wanted to be equal with the rich people. The communist party, couldn’t arise and wasn’t strong enough to complete with the Nazis. The Nazi Party, became the strongest one in 1932. Through the Nazis, Hitler arised and came to power. Hitler using propagandas, made the Germans think that he was there last hope.
Concluding, the Great Depression was one of the worst times of Germany. The country had just lost World War One and they also had to pay reparations. Apart from that, Germany had to rebuild the whole economy of their country. The Great Depression came at the worst time possible for Germany. The Great Depression caused huge problems to the German government. It caused them hyperinflation, huge unemployment rates, increase in Nationalism by a huge number of people. Nationalism also brought to power the Nazi party. All of this crazy events, made Germany started a new world War.