Why Was the Great Depression the Main Reason Why the Nazi Party Grew.

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I don't know if I can use all the terms you listed, but the Great Depression was not really the main cause for the rise of the Nazi party. It mainly grew out of the great losses Germany took as a result of WWI. As with anything else in history, you have to have a context from previous history. I'm not a scholar, but my understanding was that many, many years prior to WWI, Germany was broking up into various little kingdoms which extended from Austria into eastern Europe. Each little area had their leader and all of the leaders were always fighting to take over someone else's kingdom. Don't quote me on this, but I believe the Hapsburgs (sp?), a royal family from which Marie Antoinette was descended, started trying to unify all these little principalities into one whole empire, which they more or less succeeded in accomplishing temporarily. Then the Kaiser was assassinated and this was the start of WWI. What is now Germany, but was once much larger, meant everyone in all these at one time unified areas began fighting for their independence and everyone in the whole world became involved in it. Germany took a whipping, and at the end of WWI ended up having what they considered to be their empire broken up into individual sovereign nations. As a result, the German empire was very depressed, emotionally and economically. This laid the groundwork for the rise of the National Socialistic or Nazi party. The misconception is that Hitler started it, when in reality he just joined it. Take one angry, frustrated, impotent individual who can't find a job, and he figures out what's really going on, uses the average person's desire to return to the glorious past as a platform for his own agenda, surrounds himself with other ruthless persons, stir in a scapegoat, heat and serve. Given, this may have just stayed the way it was, which was a fringe group of thugs no one
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