It still need to pay WW1 war reparations wasn't it?
2007-01-27 04:45:52 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
After WWI, America helped out Germany economically so that Germany could pay Britain and France for their reparations, and in turn Britain and France could pay back America for the loans they provided during WWI.
During the Depression, this fragile system imploded and Germany suffered badly. Hitler came into power in the 1930s and adopted the policy of Lebensraum ("living space"), where he believed for Germany to regain its status as a world leader it would need colonize and exploit other areas of Europe.
Hitler invaded Czechoslavakia, the Rineland, and the Sudetenland (in Czechoslavakia), and the West still didn't go to war with Germany. The Nazis took the resources from these areas.
In 1939, Hitler also signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact with Stalin. This pact provided Russia with the committment that Germany would not attack them, and provided Hitler with Russia's resources.
As people have previously mentioned, the entire German economy was geared towards helping the war effort (but still needed external resources).
Hope that helps
2007-01-27 05:12:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitler was a stud before he went crazy, and he was Times "man of the year" for rebuilding Germany's economy. Then he seized all the Jewish bank accounts (he blamed the Jews for WW1), had German auto makers start making tanks and stuff, kidnapped scientists, invaded Poland and took what he needed, then WW2 started.
In a nut shell, he stopped making payments on WW1. By the time WW2 started, the rest of Europe wasn't rebuilt yet either (that's why it was so easy to take most of Europe, with the help of Italy & Russia)
2007-01-27 04:54:14 · answer #2 · answered by graphix 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They be waiting to coach a great style of severe officers regardless of the interdictions placed by skill of the Treaty of Versailles in a hide way. the final team became re baptized with a different call and the French and the English under no circumstances found out what became occurring....After the accession of Hitler to skill in 1933 they did no longer even hide and initiate a extensive re militarization of the country with a great style of military colleges reopening in user-friendly terms a splash everywhere interior the country. because of the fact that 1919, the German spirit became focused on one factor and one in user-friendly terms : REVENGE for the defeat of 1918. Now i think of they have understood that revenge isn't constantly a stable purpose to pursue.
2016-11-27 22:22:04 · answer #3 · answered by leng 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Nazi regime confiscated many of the peoples in Germany
bank accounts, properties assets. Hitler ordered many of the
industrial companies to manufacture equipment to serve the
needs of the German military. For example he ordered
Ferdinand Porsche to make an automobile suitable to travel
through the terrains. Most all of the Jews lost their properties
and moneys to the German government.
2007-01-27 04:56:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They didn't pay their war debts. It was something like Saddam did. Rather than use resources to buy food, he bought arms from Chirac on credit.
2007-01-27 04:54:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
as far as i know, the Axes helped Germany after WWI but they did not see Hitler coming until last moment.
2007-01-27 04:54:18 · answer #6 · answered by disco ball 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitler revived the economy.
2007-01-27 04:50:31 · answer #7 · answered by mark s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋