Germany not only hurt by depression, but also suffering under Treaty of Versailles.
Resentment, anger not only at the Allies, but blame put on Jews and other groups.
National Socialist Party/Nazi emerges in 1921.
Adolph Hitler leader of Nazis, chancellor (1933), and dictator (1934).
Aryan supremacy, anti-Semitism, racism.
“Cleanse” Germany of the weak.
“Greater Germany.” Pan-Germanism.