INVASION OF RUHR, HYPERINFLATION AND THE MUNISH PUTSCH

• GERMANY PAID THEIR FIRST REPARATION PAYMENT IN 1921 BUT COULDNT AFFORD THE 1922 PAYMENT.
• THIS LED TO BELGIUM AND FRANCE INVADING GERMANY IN JAN 1923 TO TAKE PAYMENT BY FORCE. THEY INVADED THE RUHR, GERMANYS MAIN INDUSTRIAL AREA, AND TOOK GOODS LIKE COAL.
• GERMANY REACTED WITH PASSIVE RESISTANCE, THEY WENT ON STRIKE AND REFUSED TO MAKE THE GOODS THE FRENCH WANTED. THEY SABOTAGED FACTORIES AND FLOODED MINES.
• THE FRENCH AND BELGIANS SHOT SOME GERMANS AND EXPELLED SOME OTHERS. THE WEIMAR GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED THE STRIKERS BY PRINTING MORE MONEY SO THEY COULD AFFORD THE STRIKES. TO MANY NITES LED TO HYPERINFLATION AND SOON A LOAF OF BREAD COST 201,000,000,000 MARKS IN NOV 1923. PEOPLE CARRIED THEIR WAGES IN WHEELBARROWS AND ELDERLY PEOPLE AND MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE SUFFERED THE WORST.
• HITLER ATTEMPETED HIS MUNICH PUTSCH (TAKE POWER BY FORCE ). ON 8TH NOV 1923 HITLER AND 600 NAZIS SEIZED A BEER HALL WHERE A MEETING BETWEEN BAVARIAN OEADERS WAS TAKING PLACE AND THEY ARRESTED THE THREE LEADERS. HITLER MADE THEM SWEAR THEIR SUPPORT FOR HIS TAKEOVER BEFORE LOCKING THEM IN A ROOM. THEY ESCAOED AND RANG THE POLICE WHO PUT A STOP TO HITLERS PUTSCH.
• HITLERS TRIAL HELPED HIM TO GAIN LOTS OF PUBLICITY AND EVERYONE IN GERMANY KNEW HIS NAME. WHILE IN PRISON HITLER WROTE MEIN KAMPF EXPLAING ALL HIS IDEAS FOR GERMANY AND DECIDED HE WOULD BEST GET INTO POWER THROUGH VOTES.