The Nazi Revolution

Although Adolf Hitler was certainly an anti-Communist, he was not a traditionalist. Hitler had very fixed ideas about a revolution of his own to re-form Germany and it included an assault on traditional German values, just what several of the people who supported him wanted to avoid. A lot of those ideas were very similar to what the Communists wanted to do.

In the mid-1920’s, a considerable amount of Germany’s economics was built on foreign capital. German manufacturing was at a postwar high by 1927 which was up 22% in 1913. By 1928 German agriculture ceased to develop and an increase in wages and prices appeared which caused Germans to accumulate debts. In September 1928 650,000 Germans were unemployed, and by 1929 three million had become unemployed. Since the great fall of prices in 1929 the US stock market, lenders from the United States gave Germany ninety days to start their reimbursement.

According to a statement that Hitler told a US newsman in 1929, with the economic troubles, bankruptcies, rising unemployment and the distrusts of public officials Germany was slipping more and more into conditions of Communism. Although the Communist party seemed to have a little more support, Hitler and the Fascists campaigning against Communism were gaining their strong points. In 1930, the parliamentary coalition that governed Germany fell apart. New elections were apprehended and the leading winner was Hitler’s National Socialist party. They increase their parliament seats from 12 to 107 which became Germany’s second largest political party. Social Democrats was still the largest party and they won 143 seats (24.5 percent of the vote). The Communist party candidates won 13.1 percent of the vote. The Social Democrats and the Communist put together were big enough to make a government. The Communist International, an organization that advocated world Communism, was confident that the parliamentary government would be quick to fall sooner and would cause a...