Re:George Orwell’s 1940 Review of Mein Kampf
by theptip on Monday July 18, 2022 @12:21PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_interwar_economy
> By 1932, close to six million people were unemployed. The situation in Germany became so precarious that Hitler and the Nazi party started to gain the support of the people.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Twenties
> The United States was the only country to come out of World War I without debt or reparations to pay. Germany owed a huge sum and had to take a loan from the US just to survive. No one had any hint that there would be a stock market crash with worldwide repercussions and that this crash would ruin Germany and set the stage for Hitler to come into power.
It was so crushed it was the strongest economic power in Europe by 1923. Truly a crippling burden.