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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (10409)	3/20/2006 10:05:40 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 22250

Crimson > was not aware that Jews were perceived to have profited greatly from the German economic turmoil of the 1920s. historylearningsite.co.uk >>Hitler blamed the Jews for all the misfortunes that had befallen Germany - the loss of the First World War was the result of a Jewish conspiracy - the Treaty of Versailles was also a Jewish conspiracy designed to bring Germany to her knees - the hyperinflation of 1923 was the result of an international Jewish attempt to destroy Germany << yalepress.yale.edu >>"A lucid, dynamic portrait of a golden age of German-Jewish culture"—Choice<< codoh.com >>German Jewry was deeply loyal to the Weimar Republic which had put an end to the discriminations of the Wilhelmine era. Germany's Jews, (0.9 per cent of the population) were generally prosperous: 60 per cent were businessmen or professionals; the rest artisans, clerks, students, with only insubstantial numbers of industrial workers. Most were for liberal capitalism, with 64 per cent voting for the Deutsche Demokratische Partei (DDP). About 28 per cent voted for the moderate Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD). Only 4 per cent voted for the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD), and the rest were scattered rightists. Weimar looked safe to all of them as they saw the Nazi vote drop from 6.5 per cent in 1924 to a mere 2.6 per cent in 1 928. None thought horror lay ahead.<< It is a known fact that American banks lent money to Germany after the 1923 crisis but perhaps I'm mistaken about the extent of the actual "profiting", because I appreciate it does sound too conspired and I'm sure there was no conspiracy per se. jmu.edu >>The Allies realized that it was not possible to keep on squeezing Germany without regard to its ability to pay. In 1924 they appointed a commission headed by the American financier Charles Dawes to draw up a plan for the economic reconstruction of Germany. Under the Dawes's Plan a schedule of reparations payments was set up and Germany received sizable international loans. The Germans used a part of these loans to meet their reparations obligations, thus easing the strains on their economy. The U.S. lent money to Germany which enabled it to pay reparations to the European ex-allies, which enabled them to make war-debt payments to the U.S. This system worked until the Great Depression caused U.S. financial institutions to stop making loans to Germany. The inability of the U.S. to make the German loans helped cause the entire world-wide economic system to collapse, and bring Adolf Hitler to power in Germany.<< Nevertheless, because Jews did well in virtually every field during the Weimar Republic, this was clearly a cause of jealousy and resentment especially to those who lost everything during the hyperinflation and depression.