In 1932, Germany was in turmoil. Mass inflation had caused the prices of all raw materials to rise, while the German people lived from paycheck to paycheck. This type of socioeconomic climate is known to fuel radical political ideologies. Ever since Germany lost the Great War (now called World War I) in 1918, the Germans were required to pay reparations to the countries they had fought in. While the United States and the United Kingdom prospered in the 1920s, Germany suffered. To repay its debts, Germany increased taxes on the population and this led businesses to increase prices without increasing employee salaries. The stock market crash of 1929 only made things worse for Germany, as the United States and Great Britain stopped paying loans to Germany. Throughout the 1920s and early 1930s, the Nazi Party and the Communist Party took advantage of Germany's newfound freedom of speech to propagate their ideologies. While the Communist Party advocated complete socioeconomic equality, the Nazi Party advocated a government of rigid authority, Aryan superiority, and German pride. In most cases, the public would avoid these radical parties, but desperate times called for desperate measures. While people could see how communism had changed Russia, probably for the worse, the Nazis provided an alternative to both the old monarchy and the communists. Dissatisfied with the democratic government under President Hindenburg, the German people elected Adolf Hitler of the Nazi Party as president of Germany in 1933. Although Hitler initially brought prosperity and wealth to Germany, the German people should have seen the warning signs due to the Hitler's excess. -maximum charisma, hatred towards certain groups of people, loss of freedom and fear of repercussions...... middle of paper...... this day as a warning for the present and the future. How one man first took control of an entire country, then all of Europe, and systematically wiped out 1/3 of an entire ethnic group stands as a stark warning against all humanity. All the signs were clear from the start. Shallow charisma, genocide, loss of freedom and fear of speaking out created the perfect storm that the German people should have seen coming. Works Cited Rees, Laurence. "Point of View: His Dark Charisma." BBC News Magazine.BBC News. November 11, 2012.Goldensohn, Leon. Nuremberg interviews. New York: Random House, Inc., 2004. Press.“Nazi propaganda and censorship”. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. npnd Web.Spector, Robert M. World Without Civilization: Mass Murder and the Holocaust, History and Analysis. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 2005. Print.