What did Stalin and Hitler do to restore their countries after WW I?

Question

After WW I, both Russia and Germany suffered heavy loss, but Hitler and Stalin managed to revive them successfully. What exactly did they do to achieve that? Detailed answer is appreciated.

Answer 1

When Hitler came to power, Germany was hopelessly broke. The Treaty of Versailles had imposed crushing reparations on the German people, demanding that Germans repay every nation’s costs of the war. These costs totaled three times the value of all the property in Germany.



Private currency speculators caused the German mark to plummet, precipitating one of the worst runaway inflations in modern times. A wheelbarrow full of 100 billion-mark banknotes could not buy a loaf of bread. The national treasury was empty. Countless homes and farms were lost to speculators and to private (Jewish controlled) banks. Germans lived in hovels. They were starving.



Nothing like this had ever happened before - the total destruction of the national currency, plus the wiping out of people's savings and businesses. On top of this came a global depression. Germany had no choice but to succumb to debt slavery under international (mainly Jewish) bankers until 1933, when the National Socialists came to power. At that point the German government thwarted the international banking cartels by issuing its own money. World Jewry responded by declaring a global boycott against Germany.



Hitler began a national credit program by devising a plan of public works that included flood control, repair of public buildings and private residences, and construction of new roads, bridges, canals, and port facilities. All these were paid for with money that no longer came from the private international bankers.



The projected cost of these various programs was fixed at one billion units of the national currency. To pay for this, the German government (not the international bankers) issued bills of exchange, called Labor Treasury Certificates. In this way the National Socialists put millions of people to work, and paid them with Treasury Certificates.



Under the National Socialists, Germany’s money wasn't backed by gold (which was owned by the international bankers). It was essentially a receipt for labor and materials delivered to the government. Hitler said, "For every mark issued, we required the equivalent of a mark's worth of work done, or goods produced." The government paid workers in Certificates. Workers spent those Certificates on other goods and services, thus creating more jobs for more people. In this way the German people climbed out of the crushing debt imposed on them by the international bankers.



Within two years, the unemployment problem had been solved, and Germany was back on its feet. It had a solid, stable currency, with no debt, and no inflation, at a time when millions of people in the United States and other Western countries (controlled by international bankers) were still out of work. Within five years, Germany went from the poorest nation in Europe to the richest.

Answer 2

In WWI, Germany lost the war (obviously) and they signed the Treaty of Versailles. It stated that Germany cannot raise an army and it took full responsibility for the war. As we all know Hitler served in the German military as a Runner (messenger), but he got wounded in combat and by the time he recovered, Germany surrendered. Hitler was furious because the German Army was unmatched and blamed the lost on the German Government than the military. Saying that the Fatherland betrayed the military. During the same time of WWI, Vladimir IIyich Ulyanov which we know him better as Vladimir Lenin started a communist revolution against the Russian Czar ( or Tsar depending how you want to spell it). So Russia had the communist revolution as well as fighting the Germans in the Eastern Front. The Russian Government signed a treaty to stop fighting Germany, by that time America stepped in. Then Lenin and Trosky merged the two communist party and had Lenin led it and they managed to overthrow the Czar and defeat the White Army. Thus the Bolsheviks were born. The Whites underestimated the Reds and were defeated even with the British, french and American's help. Once Lenin died in early years of the 1920s, Stalin stepped in. Lenin never really trusted Stalin at all though. Stalin was mostly famous for his 5 year plans that effected Agriculture, transportation, communications, education, welfare, capital and consumer goods. He planned to move majority of the industrial factories further east so it would be harder for Germany to attack them in WWII. Besides Stalin was a ruthless leader, killed millions of Russian citizens and soldiers alike. Hitler on the other hand became leader of the Nazi party (National Socialist German Workers' Party or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei in German). He tried to commit a coup d'etat which the event was called Beer Hall Putsch. But the Police quickly suppressed it, and Hitler was imprisoned but let go for good behavior and that was when he wrote Mein Kampf (My struggle)while being imprisoned, where he laid out his plan of taking over germany. After his release, he promised that he would seek power through democratic ways BUT he was unable to run because of his record. So he had certain high nazi officials like Geobbels, Gregor and Otto Strasser to help him rebuild the party and have them run for office. The nazis never managed to gain majority of parliament but he managed it because the other two influential parties, the socialist and communist were busy attacking each other rather than teaming up to knock down the nazis. Hitler became chancellor of germany under President Hindenberg. He set a ploy to get emergency powers by staging a terrorist attack in the Reichstag (Germany's Government Legislative building) and framed a communist, which Hindenberg was afraid of communists and gave hitler lots of power which he used to overthrow Hindenberg. his next plan was mainly to gather and reunite the German speaking people like the Austrians, Sudetenland (Area in czechoslovakia), and Alsace-Lorraine (which had both French and German Speakers there). Which he managed to do with no bloodshed, in result Czechoslovakia was split up into by Germany and Russia (USSR). Hitler was a very charismatic person, so rallying up the germans was really easy for him especially many believed that their previous gov.t betrayed them. Hitler promised lots of things, like Germany being #1, rebuild of economy etc etc. So the point was that Lenin, Hitler and i guess Stalin [you can say] all rallied their people and rebuild their countries in like 10 years time. Really fast imo, i hope this helps i know its a long read.

Answer 3

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