Was the economic crisis after 1929 a reason for Hitler becoming the dictator by 1933?

By 1933, low economic growth, high unemployment and hyperinflation had many German families on the brink of starvation. The economic growth that came after World War I was a direct result of US loans to Germany that allowed the economy to grow and the country to pay the extremely high reparations payments imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. The Dawes Plan provided loans that were to be directly invested in the Germany economy, thus enabling Germany to pay the exorbitant reparations payments. It was a circular plan that looked like this:

The US landed money to Germany

Germany paid reparations to France, Great Britain, Belgium, et al.

The former Allies paid loans back to the United States for monies lent doing WWI.

The loans to Germany dried up in 1928 due to the faltering economy in the United States, and when the US Stock Market crashed in 1929, the consequences to all of Europe were extreme. Germany was especially hard hit as the fiscal response of the Weimar Government showed its shocking ineptitude.

Germany fell into a crisis called hyperinflation because the government was printing money to compensate for the faltering economy at the same time they were raising taxes. Unfortunately, this caused families in Germany to fall into crisis as well. Over six million German men were left unemployed as factories/businesses cut their work forces. Upper middle class families were equally hard hit as 60% of new university graduates were unable to find work.

Because many working families were on the brink of starvation, while the government kept raising taxes and cutting back expenditures, the German people became more and more frustrated with the Weimar Government and looked to the more radical parties, including Hitler’s Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers Party). The NSDAP became the strongest party in the Reichstag by 1932. Hitler, of course, was well pleased by the depression, as it afforded him the path to power. He is reported to have announced, “Never in my life have I been so well disposed and inwardly contented as in these days. For hard reality has opened the eyes of millions of Germans.” (Quoted from: http://alphahistory.com/weimarrepublic/great-depression/#sthash.eQ2TfbUH.dpuf).

More and more Germans became enamored by the early Nazi Party’s ideology, which included unification of all Germany, repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles, and expulsion of all Jews from German life. Little did they know what would become of Germany under Nazi control.

Is there a word/phrase for "unperformant"?

As a software engineer, I need to sometimes describe a piece of code as something that lacks performance or was not written with performance in mind. Example: This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. Based on my Google searches, this isn't a real word. What is the correct way to describe this? EDIT My usage of "performance" here is in regard to speed and efficiency. For example, the better the performance of code the faster the application runs. My question and example target the negative definition, which is in reference to preventing inefficient coding practices. Answer This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. In my opinion, reads more easily as: This coding style leads to unmaintainable and poorly performing code. The key to well-written documentation and reports lies in ease of understanding. Adding poorly understood words such as performant decreases that ease. In addressing the use of such a poorly ...

A man has a garden measuring 84 meters by 56 meters. He divides it into the minimum number of square plots. What is the length of the square plots?

We wish to divide this man's garden into the minimum number of square plots possible. A square has all four sides with the same length.Our garden is a rectangle, so the answer is clearly not 1 square plot. If we choose the wrong length for our squares, we may end up with missing holes or we may not be able to fit our squares inside the garden. So we have 84 meters in one direction and 56 meters in the other direction. When we start dividing the garden in square plots, we are "filling" those lengths in their respective directions. At each direction, there must be an integer number of squares (otherwise, we get holes or we leave the garden), so that all the square plots fill up the garden nicely. Thus, our job here is to find the greatest common divisor of 84 and 56. For this, we prime factor both of them: `56 = 2*2*2*7` `84 = 2*2*3*7` We can see that the prime factors and multiplicities in common are `2*2*7 = 28` . This is the desired length of the square plots. If you wi...

nouns - what do you call the person who passes the trophies to the prize giver/presenter?

The person who gives out the trophies to the winners are called award presenters. So what do u call the person who passes the trophies to the presenter? Thanks!

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