America recalled the money they had loaned to Germany
Factories were producing less, so some of their workers became sacked and unemployed
This meant that there were fewer people with money to buy goods so factories sold fewer goods. Therefore, even more workers were sacked.
Farmers were also affected as the unemployed bought less food and farm prices dropped, forcing many farmers and farm workers into unemployment.
The German economy has fell into what was known as the Great Depression. This was world wide.
Unemployment kept rising
By 1933 - 6 million Germans were out of work
Misery and dispair
Many middle class and working class families lost their homes.
Business men went bankrupt
Small farmers lost their farms
Many Germans blamed the government for the situation and lost confidence in democracy.
Many turned to extremist parties who seemed to have a solution to the economic problems
All this misery was just the opportunity that Hitlet and the Nazis needed.
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Hitler's Ideas
1924 - Hitler released from prision and started to reorganise the Nazi Party to make it more effective in elections
Hitler set up the Hitler Youth for boys and a new fighting force - the **
Marches and torchlight rallies were staged to publicise Nazi ideas.
More and more people joined the party but in the elections of 1928 the Nazis did not do well.
This situation changed when the Great Depression hit Germany.
Voters were increasingly attracted to Hitler's ideas.
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Hitlers Ideas
Hitler set out many of his ideas in the book he wrote when he was in prision ('Mein Kampf')
Hitlet beleived that the weak leadership of the Weimar governments had caused many of Germany's problems. He said that Germany needed a strong leader, like himself.
Hitler also said that the Nazis would make Germany a strong country again by overturning the Treaty Of Versailles.
The Nazis would then make Germany a great millitary power by increasing the size of the army.
Hitlet said that he would make Germany prosperous again after the misery of the Depression
Inferior Races - Eastern European, Asian and African, Jews and Travellers
Hitler wanted all Germans to work together to make Germany great again. ('the peoples community')
Hitler hated communism and pledged himself to destroy it.
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