Aaah, the good old Weimer Republic:
To be fair though, the fact that Germany crashed before the Great Depression meant that things couldn't get much worse when '29 hit. In fact, IIRC Germany was one of the least effected of the Western Nations because the DM couldn't sink much lower. Of course that was little consolation for Germany, and of course we all know how it eventually turned out.
Can't say I support the whole 'Merkel = Hitler' propaganda, but there is certainly a risk of cunning people using the dire economic circumstances to politically profit and put forward an agenda that in Boom times would be laughed out of legislation.
Of course, since I have incurred Godwins law, my whole post is now irrelevant.
