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48. The whole "stab in the back"

Sat Nov 20, 2021, 02:26 PM

Nov 2021

conspiracy BS pushed by the right (and particularly the military) didn't help either.

Even so, Weimar Germany was doing pretty well by 1929--the economy was recovering, the reparations were being renegotiated, and people had begun to recover at least somewhat from the trauma of 1914 to 1925.

Then came the Wall Street crash and the Great Depression, which hit Germany harder than even the US. That was the nail in the coffin of German democracy pre-1945.

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