Its simple really, but there were a few contributing factors.  First he eliminated other governments.  Of course you have power, popularity, and other things when there is no one to challenge the things you do.  Hitler successfully achieved this, and I have no idea what lead the other government groups to forfeit their power without so much as a second thought.  I suppose fear is a great motivator. 

I think the Weimar government’s biggest problem laid in their open fear of Hitler and the Nazi’s.  Sure they were scary, but it’s the whole bully theory.  If you stand up to a bully he will leave you alone.  Now we know this is often not the case, but what’s worse, to get beat up for standing up for your self or get beat up for your lunch money.

The Weimar government needed to stop retreating and fight back a little bit, they had the power to stop Hitler, but they let it slip through their fingers.  Someone would have come around eventually with the same thoughts as Hitler and succeeded in implementing them, were Hitler stopped, but better later than now, that’s for sure.

For the future I see many great struggles as long as Hitler is in power.  People might perceive things as getting better, but they won’t, just more propaganda will tell them it is.  Inevitably the Jewish people will be the target of much hate and prosecution, and they will receive little help from inside Germany.  People will have to stick together and rebel against Hitler before anything will get better.  Eventually the wool shall be lifted from people’s eyes, and they will see the wrong of their ways.

Lucky timing undeniably played a big part in the Nazis success.  Holocaust Timing is everything.  The sad part though is, the timing was when people were most willing to hate someone for no good reason.

Who would I blame had I lived at the time? I might blame the Weimar Government. If they had managed the country’s finances with any competence at all there is no way they should have suffered such losses. Did they not understand that you cannot just pump out more money to pay off debt?

The other group one might point a finger at is the Allies. Their financial demands could have had no effect but to cripple the German economy. Had they not forced the government to pay such high reparations for the damages incurred in the war then the economy could have been saved.

Any way you look at it the effect was devastating, and I would be very angry, probably with both parties. Selling family heirlooms is something that no one would enjoy doing, especially when it’s for a basic necessity such as food. Selling off things holocaust timeline that have been in your family for a long time tells us a lot about the desperate situation in Germany at the time, things like this, irreplaceable things, are not things you pawn off because you want money. They are things you sell because you need money.

In desperate situations people do desperate things and under very desperate conditions, such as in Germany at the time I am sure canadian currency there must have been other problems caused by the money problems. Such as violence, crime and suicide, which are things that often accompany hardships, such at those incurred by the Germans at this time.

How ever you look at it Germany at the time is not a place I would like to be. If placed in a situation like this I don’t really know what I’d do, I guess just what ever I had to do to stay afloat in the world.