Question

Each country handled the Great Depression differently. For this assignment, you need to answer the questions about Germany.

Answer 1

1. no they did not start new programs

2. no but when Germany was in the great depression it was Hitlers chance to help his people.(over night, the middle class standard of living so many German families enjoyed was ruined by events outside of Germany, beyond their control. The Great Depression began and they were cast into poverty and deep misery and began looking for a solution, any solution. Adolf Hitler knew his opportunity had arrived.

3. no they didn't move from capitalism to another economic system.(By mid-1930, amid the economic pressures of the Great Depression, the German democratic government was beginning to unravel. Gustav Stresemann, the outstanding German Foreign Minister, had died in October 1929, just before the Wall Street crash. He had spent years working to restore the German economy and stabilize the republic and died, having exhausted himself in the process.)