Adolph Hitler

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Adolph Hitler
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The Weimar Republic
The Kaiser abdicated in November 1918 and Germany
became a republic. The new Republic became known
as the Weimar republic because it met it the town
of Weimar.
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The Treaty Of Versailles
Germany lost 13 of its land, all its colonies,
it wasnt allowed to have an army of more than
100,000 and it had to pay reparations to pay for
the cost of the war
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Inflation 1923
January
500 Mark, Aluminum Would buy 1 dozen eggs or a
pound of flour. Bread is 700 Mark a loaf.
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May 1923
500,000 Mark May 1, 1923 Reichsbanknote Would
buy about 40 pounds of meat. Bread is 1200 Mark
a loaf.
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October 1923
1 Billion Mark, October 20, 1923 Reichsbanknote
Would buy ¾ Pound of Meat, 3 eggs or 1/6 Pound
of Butter Bread is 670 Million Mark a loaf.
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November 1923
100 Billion Mark, Nov. 3 1923 City of Freital On
November 1 100 Billion Mark would buy 3 pounds of
meat. Bread is 3 Billion Mark a loaf. On
November 15 100 Billion Mark would buy 2 glasses
of beer Bread is 80 Billion Mark a loaf.
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Daily Express (24th February, 1923) A Berlin
couple who were about to celebrate their golden
wedding received an official letter advising them
that the mayor, in accordance with Prussian
custom, would call and present them with a
donation of money. Next morning the mayor,
accompanied by several aldermen in picturesque
robes, arrived at the aged couple's house, and
solemnly handed over in the name of the Prussian
State, 1,000,000,000,000 marks or one halfpenny.
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Frieda Wunderlich, interview (1960) As soon as
I received my salary I rushed out to buy the
daily necessities. My daily salary, as editor of
the periodical Soziale Praxis, was just enough to
buy one loaf of bread and a small piece of cheese
or some oatmeal. An acquaintance of mine, a
clergyman, came to Berlin from a suburb with his
monthly salary to buy a pair of shoes for his
baby he could only buy a cup of coffee.
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Adolf Hitler
Hitler was a slight, pale man with brown hair
parted to one side. He had steel-blue eyes...he
had the look of a fanatic....he held the
audience, and me with them, under a hypnotic
spell by the sheer force of his conviction.
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Munich Putsch 1923
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Mein Kampf
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"Shake off your Jewish leaders............Don't
expect anything from the Bolsheviks (the Russian
Communists)............(The Russian government)
is nine-tenths Jewish. Bolshevism is a Jewish
swindle."
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The Nazi Flag
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1929 The Wall Street Crash
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Unemployment in Germany
Before the crash, 1.25 million people were
unemployed in Germany. By the end of 1930 the
figure had reached nearly 4 million, 15.3 per
cent of the population. Even those in work
suffered as many were only working part-time.
With the drop in demand for labour, wages also
fell and those with full-time work had to survive
on lower incomes. Hitler, who was considered a
fool in 1928 when he predicted economic disaster,
was now seen in a different light. People began
to say that if he was clever enough to predict
the depression maybe he also knew how to solve
it.
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Hitler as Chancellor
January 1933