Hyperinflation:
• Government prints more money in order of paying the reparations
• The value of money goes down
• Prices go up
• Government prints more and more money
• Prices go up even more
In November 1923, Hitler tried to take advantage of the crisis facing the Weimar Republic by instigating a revolution in Munich. It was called the Beer Hall Putsch or the Munich Putsch.
The Dawes Plan provided for an end to the Allied occupation, and a staggered payment plan for Germany's payment of war reparations.
In the Locarno Treaties (1925), Western European Allied powers normalised relations with defeated Germany.
After the Putsch, Hitler was arrested and put on trial.
Hitler used his time in prison to write Mein Kampf (My Struggle) about his life and ideas.
In 1929, Germany was hit by a severe economic depression. By 1932 over 30 per cent of the German workforce was unemployed.
In the Election campaign, Adolf Hitler promised that if he gained power he would abolish unemployment.
In January 1933, Hindenburg agreed to appoint Hitler as chancellor.
On 27 February 1933, the Reichstag building was set on fire. Nazis blamed a communist plot.
At Hitler's urging, Hindenburg responded with the Reichstag Fire Decree of 28 February, which suspended basic rights and allowed detention without trial.
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