Hitler's Rise To Power

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ans responded with a policy of passive resistance. They refused to have anything to do with the French, especially work. This was a major economical problem for Germany. They were already broke, with reparations to pay, and now they had lost some of their most important income. The German government did not have enough money to pay for the cost of the resistance in the Ruhr, so they printed more. They did not have the money to do this, so their currency inflated.

By November of 1923, the Deutschemark had inflated to one hundred and thirty thousand million marks to one American dollar, compared with just four hundred marks to an American dollar in 1922. These huge economic problems, along with humiliation of the Versailles treaty and war defeat brought much political conflict. In September 1923, when Chancellor Stresemann called off passive resistance in the Ruhr, many people felt he was giving in to France. To those who hated the republic and particularly right-wing extremist groups felt that Stresemann’s decision was a betrayal. This was...