I posted this on r/morbidquestions, but then they told me about this sub, so...
If I'm presuming something wrong here, it would be nice to know as well. I have a very, very limited knowledge about world wars, even less about nazi germany.
Mistakenly or not, what I've learned is that after WWI, parts of Germany was destroyed to a wasteland, they had to give up a lot of territory, countries kept an eye on them so they didn't have much freedom to do somethings (like international commerce)... all of that have destroyed their pride and self esteem.
But then at 1939, WWII ecloded and a lot of countries had to join forces to stop Germany from conquering Europa.
What... What happened in a so short time? I do learned(again, possibly mistakenly) that Germany broke many pacts and agreements and attacked peaceful countries all of nowhere, so this might explain why allies went full force on them. But this still does not explain his fast economical growth, does it?
^ these answers I've given should be pertinent
what I've learned is that after WWI, parts of Germany was destroyed to a wasteland, they had to give up a lot of territory, countries kept an eye on them so they didn't have much freedom to do somethings (like international commerce)... all of that have destroyed their pride and self esteem
This is patently untrue; Germany may have lost c. 10% of it's territory, but these were largely non-German in their ethnic make up, and Germany remained intact. It was most certainly not a wasteland. Disarmament committees kept an eye on Germany's military (or so they thought), but the major centers of German industry like the Ruhr remained under German control before and shortly after 1923, as did a large part of Silesia. With the Young-Dawes Plan, Germany received access to foreign capital to repay it's reparations, and ultimately receive more funds in foreign capital from 1924-29, than West Germany would in Marshall Plan funds after WWII, adjusting for inflation.
What... What happened in a so short time? ... But this still does not explain his fast economical growth, does it?
For one thing, the Young-Dawes Plan. For another thing, as Adam Tooze describes in his excellent work Wages of Destruction, Hjalmar Schacht employed Keynesian economic schemes to facilitate a German recovery from the Great Depression in the early 30s. By 1935, Hitler had Germany rearming, and new jobs were created in order for the Wehrmacht to be ready for war within a decade (Hitler assured Admiral Erich Raeder that Germany would wait until 1944 before going to war). However, German debt only grew do to the rampant spending on Armaments, and this combined with Hitler's "Program" as Andreas Hillgruber and Gerhard Weinberg would describe it, led Hitler to gamble on war in 1939.