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Originally Posted by Albert Tatlock
The treaty of Versailles caused huge resentment in Germany, especially amongst the working classes as it caused severe poverty and starvation. The rich elite Germans who caused the great war were relatively cushioned from this by their wealth. This resentment led to the rise of Adolf Hitler.
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As so often, it was the middle classes who were pivotal. Not just much of their wealth but their sense of stability was destroyed by the post-WW1 hyperinflation, and though they recovered with the economy later in the 1920s they never again felt secure.
When the economy crashed again post-1929, the consequences were all too forseeable.
There are certainly some possible parallels now, with the growing insecurity of much of the West's middle class and the rise of the "precariat" - is Corbynism et al really a surprise?