Reparations and Economic Turmoil in Post-WWI Germany

While many argue that Adolf Hitler was “made” upon the 1939 outbreak of World War II or his 1933 accession to the Chancellorship of Germany, one historian reasons that the ordinary man became Führer in 1923. With the French occupying industrial portions of Germany, the economy fell into a tailspin and political radicalism skyrocketed. This led a rabid German corporal with a toothbrush mustache to orchestrate the infamous Beer Hall Putsch.

Join me and Professor Mark Jones as we discuss the rarely considered origins of Adolf Hitler in his book, 1923. 

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