3 Conditions: Reparations; Treaty of Versailles; Anti-Semitism
The reparations were put into place shortly after the Treaty of Versailles was signed. The reparations and the hyperinflation that followed caused the value of the deutschmark to decrease to almost nothing. Children would make toys out of the bills, they were worth so little. Soon, Germany wasn't able to pay back its reparations.
The Treaty of Versailles included a clause that removed most of Germany's armed forces, causing many career soldiers to lose their jobs. This created dissent and many of the soldiers and their families blamed the Weimar Republic.
Anti-Semitism was on the rise because a few of the officials who signed the treaty were Jewish and extreme nationalists blamed Jews for all the problems facing Germany.
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