I'm familiar with these two things: - The Great Depression was the acute and proximate cause behind the rise in support for the Nazis. Their popularity went up

I'm familiar with these two things: - The Great Depression was the acute and proximate cause behind the rise in support for the Nazis. Their popularity went up by ~20-30% due to this one event. - The Russian Revolution and the attempts of communist revolutionaries in Germany in 1919 was the defining event of Hitler's psyche, according to historian Ian Kershaw > depression before WW1, the hyperinflation in 1923 I'd be interested to read more about this.