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Large amount of factors came into play. What really helped was the jews themselves with the creation and iron grip of Weimar. See, in Weimar the curency manipulators at the time knew the currency was exploding and hyperinflating, but the jews had forced a debt on Germany that could never be repaid by retroactively allowing any country at the time in Europe to claim damage against Germany for the first world war, even if that country was never involved. No background check, just their word was enough. The Weimarian government at the time knew trying to re normalize the curency would end in collapse, and we see this when people started using the currency for wallpaper, and fire kindling. So really, anything would have worked to "save" Weimar, its just that Hitler beat out the other jews to the punch. Think of it as complete blind opportunity that lead to Hitler over some other political asshole. Remember, Weimar was the initial, or one of the testing ground for communist utopias for its time, Germany had no ability to issue its own currency, and the wealthy people of Weimar were forced into the international exchanges to preserve the little money they had left.
" When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he introduced policies aimed at improving the economy. The changes included privatization of state industries, autarky (national economic self-sufficiency) and tariffs on imports. Weekly earnings increased by 19% in real terms from 1933 to 1939,[2] but this was largely due to employees working longer hours, while the hourly wage rates remained close to the lowest levels reached during the Great Depression.[3] In addition, reduced foreign trade meant rationing in consumer goods like poultry, fruit, and clothing for many Germans.[4]
The Nazis believed in war as the primary engine of human progress, and argued that the purpose of a country's economy should be to enable that country to fight and win wars of expansion.[5] As such, almost immediately after coming to power, they embarked on a vast program of military rearmament, which quickly dwarfed civilian investment.[6] During the 1930s, Nazi Germany increased its military spending faster than any other state in peacetime,[7] and the military eventually came to represent the majority of the German economy in the 1940s.[8] This was funded mainly through deficit financing before the war, and the Nazis expected to cover their debt by plundering the wealth of conquered nations during and after the war.[9] Such plunder did occur, but its results fell far short of Nazi expectations."
You're posting Wikipedia about Germany as if that's going to prove anything. At best they're good for neutral topics only. For example:
>but this was largely due to employees working longer hours
Germany had massive unemployment before Hitler, extremely low unemployment after him
>During the 1930s, Nazi Germany increased its military spending faster than any other state in peacetime
They were starting with the smallest military per capita in all of Europe. They had no navy, no air force, and 100,000 men in all forms of the army. Poland's military dwarfed theirs, as of course did France's, England's, and the Soviets. If military spending is what leads to wealth, the USSR would have been the richest nation in the world, as it had about 10 times as many tanks as Germany had, and the UK would have had no Great Depression due to its large navy and bomber fleet.
>The Nazis believed in war as the primary engine of human progress, and argued that the purpose of a country's economy should be to enable that country to fight and win wars of expansion
Citation needed. The source listed was Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction, which he dedicated to his grandpa who was a British spy for the Soviet Union, the largest military in the world and by far the most genocidal regime in modern history. The book seems to be written to prop up the idea of Germany as having prospered through military buildup alone. Rather than posting the primary source, all links go through court historians like them. For another example, they uncritically cite William L. Shirer, who even mainstream historians reject for including too many proven lies in his book.
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