It is interesting that Brüning is so easily forgotten about in history, even though, arguably, the failure of his administration certainly helped Hitler a lot. But the great question remains: why did Brüning act the way he did? This is something that seems to scratch a lot of people's heads. Why the pedantic enactment of the Versailles treaty? Why doom the economy in such an obvious way? And why lead in such an openly dysfunctional way, if he himself knew of the danger Hitler posed?

Is it really so that he wanted to showcase the ridiculousness of the Versailles treaty or that he, as he himself said later on in his life, he wanted to reinstate monarchy (which doesn't make much sense)?

Could we discuss this?