What was Germany like in the wake of World War I? How did the Nazi Party and Hitler rise to power? How did the Nazi party achieve economic recovery at...

The answers
to all of these questions are closely connected to one another.  The state of Germany after WWI
helped lead to the rise of the Nazi Party.  The Nazis were able to rise in part because of their
foreign and domestic policies.

First, however, we must note that the Nazi
Party did not come to power immediately after WWI.  As late as 1928, the Nazi Party got less
than 3% of the vote in a nationwide election.  It was really the Great Depression, as much as
WWI, that allowed the Nazis to take power.

In the years soon after WWI,
Germany was in bad shape.  Perhaps most famously, the countrys economy collapsed so badly that
hyperinflation occurred.  This made money...

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