The history write up Gab doesn't want you to see

Okay, there seems to be an outbreak of liberals who don't seem to know what WWII entailed or anything about the Nazis, so I'm going to do you all a big favour and give you a crash course in mainstream history so you don't embarrass yourselves, m'kay?

After WW1, the Allies had demanded Germany pay restitution for damage caused during the war. *Many* historians called this 'revenge reparations' because it annexed large parts of Germany economic infrastructure and brought Germany's economy to it's knees. It also mandated Germany cut it's army and navy to a ridiculously small size. During this time period, there was a lot of unrest amongst the German populace.

Of course, America realised the problem with this approach early on, realising economic hardship would drive Germany into another war. To try to avoid this, America gave it a series of loans, known as the 'Dawes plan' (theoretically similar to the post WW2 'Marshall plan'), however in the 1930s the stock market crashed and America hit an economic recession. Germany quickly followed suit.

To make matters worse, German miners - who had been paying reparations to France - went on strike (sound familar? Yellow Vests anyone?), and at that time, there was no welfare system, so the strikers weren't paid. Mining corporates practically encouraged the strikes as they were losing profits. Despite being in economic dire straits, the German finance ministry opted to print more Reichmarks (sound familiar? Also known as 'Quantitative Easing' or 'QE') in order to pay the strikers.

This started a spiral of inflation (where a money's perceived value is worth less; you spend more to get the same amount of stuff previously). This quickly led to a state known as 'hyperinflation' where wheelbarrows of money were required to buy things like bread. I actually have a Weimar Germany Reichmark for '10000'. A mark these days is equal to 1 dollar to give an idea of scale of the inflation.

As a result, economic hardship quickly followed, and politicians were blamed. The National Socialist party rose quickly on the backs of this discontent which other political parties ignored or failed to address (sound familiar?), and their rise was financed by the very mining corporations who made a loss due to reparations.

Hitler blamed a variety of groups, but found steadfast a target in blaming Jews, who comparatively appeared rich compared to the now impoverished poor. Retaliation occurred, violent gangs who beat up people formed, and before long, the Nazis found themselves elected into power. Hitler begun seizing previously reparated land such as the Rhine and building up military, which gave the artificial impression of the economy recovering (only a short term gain).

Other countries refused to oppose Nazi Germany because they reasoned that them becoming economically stable would stop war, and WW1 was a sore point of contention having costed millions of lives. Russia had no interest, and despite British PM Neville Chamberlain desperately trying to avoid war, even as Czechoslovakia got annexed, the invasion of Poland cemented a change of heart.

The case of Nazi Germany is not a simple case of people being instantly racist and going on a mass murdering spree. It was a slow boiling point of economic disparity, class inequality and political opportunism fueled by political corruption and indifference. Had the Allies not punished Weimar Germany, it's doubtful Nazi Germany would have even risen to power. Economic inequality is the biggest driver of social upheaval. Just ask France.