Tessa Schlesinger
1 min readAug 14, 2021

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At the end of WWI, the Allies fined Germany so much money that they descended into poverty. My late father told me that inflation was so great that they had to carry suitcases of money in order to pay for things.

The Jews got out of the ghetto at the end of the 19th century, and one way or another, many Jews became very prosperous. My grandfather was a horse dealer (at some point), and I have photos of him in WWI. My late father obviously came from an upper middle class (fairly wealthly, anyway) family because his background in those days indicates that.

It was in that environment that Hitler came to power, but I don't think it had anything to do with Germans wanting to be superior. That was Hitler playing to the anger and the poverty that people were living through - same as the US today.

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