Germany
In social science we are overlooking the Holocaust we are starting by looking at the big depression.
During the global depression, Germany was hit the hardest. The worldwide depression affected many countries, leaving people without a home, with no money, unemployed, and being affected by World War II. An obvious consequence that occurred was a huge rise in unemployment. Numbers went from 1.4 million unemployed to 2 million people. By the time Hitler became the leader, 1 and 3 people were unemployed. Americans endured the biggest crisis in the nation’s history, at its worst over a quarter of the workforce was unemployed. Housing prices went up to a percentage of 67, making it very hard for families to have a home. This shows that the global depression had a big effect on everybody no matter their situation.
Germany was demanded to sign the Treaty of Versailles, to ensure peace between countries but to take the power away. This treaty was made at the end of World War 1, the treaty was produced by Paris peace, and was signed in 1919. By signing this treaty, at the start, the treaty caused anger, hate, and revulsion of the society. Germany lost many rights as a country or an individual. Germany was made to pay reparations of 70 Billion dollars in today’s money. This took them a very long time to pay off and finished paying this is off on 3rd October 2010.
The great depression reached right around the world starting in the United States. The reason it reached over here in New Zealand was that overseas countries brought New Zealand’s goods, after that, they did no longer buy the goods which meant there was no income coming into the country. New Zealand is an agricultural country. Unemployment in New Zealand rose to 12%, and those who were lucky enough to keep their jobs lost 20% of their income.
