I can't help but recall that the Great Depression and the resulting widespread poverty is considered by some historians to be one of the factors leading up WW2.
Nazi share of the vote in German federal elections from 1924 to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933:
May 1924 - 6.5%
Dec 1924 - 3.0%
May 1928 - 2.6%
Sep 1930 - 18.25%
Jul 1932 - 37.27%
Nov 1932 - 33.09%umemploymemt in the Reich in 1936 was 1%.
like some wise economist said "it's the economy, stupid."
i hear today US unemployment is 30+% and will hit 45% by July. i guess if America was ever going to repeat the steps from Weimar to Reich, that time is now.
what was Hitler's formula for his economic miracle? it was dead simple.
1. default on the War Debt (owed to America)
2. pour over 50% of GDP in the re-armament in preparation to go to War.
America is -$27 trillion in debt now. if we start ramping up the war machine to test drive the eagle against, oh, say, Chy-na, then start to worry about the new Weimar to Reich tramsition.
may you live in interesting times.
Hint: There's lies, damned lies and statistics.
US President Woodrom Wilson cam down with flu, had a stroke and early retirement from public life. So he couldn't persuade US govt to join the newly formed League of Nations or ratify the Treaty of Versailles. He didn't support punitive measure against German state. Since US was no longer part of process, German paid hard. Hyper inflation took hold, 4marks to a dollar ended up 4 billion marks for a dollar. That hardship and resentment is the environment the fueled Hitler and brought him support. Interesting reading, "The Spanish Flu epidemic and it's influence on history"
it's funny how a cruel and exploitive economy tends to backfire when the one wrong guy is crushed by it, and then dedicates his life to overthrowing that economy.