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I'd also caution against falling for the "oppressed" point of view, because that's been shown many times to have been a political myth - which was not even invented by the Nazis at all, but merely co-opted from the likes of Hindenburg. The idea of a terrible victors' peace and burdens of defeat is a psychological construct, not a socioeconomic fact, and most of Germany's real socioeconomic problems of the 20s were of their own making, exacerbated by a world war they could not have afforded but tried anyway. But it was easier to shift the blame. Hitler rode into power not on the genius of his ideas, but on co-opting a fallacious propaganda maneuver of nationalist conservatives covering their own faults in WWI, and on the coat-tails of an already-recovering German economy that his regime deserves no real credit for. So I really don't see any need for apologetics there.