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The German government's policy of printing money to pay striking workers in the Ruhr Valley during the 1923 occupation resulted in catastrophic hyperinflation.
In November 1923, at the time of the Beer Hall Putsch, Germany's hyperinflation reached a point where one U.S. dollar was worth 4.2 trillion German marks.
For his role in the Beer Hall Putsch, Adolf Hitler was convicted of high treason and sentenced to five years in prison, but ultimately served only 13 months.
Following the failure of the Beer Hall Putsch, Adolf Hitler adopted a new strategy to gain power through legal, electoral means rather than by violent revolution.
While imprisoned in Landsberg Prison, Adolf Hitler wrote his political manifesto and autobiography, "Mein Kampf".
In "Mein Kampf," Adolf Hitler fully articulated his foreign policy concept of "Lebensraum," which called for German expansion and the acquisition of "living space" in Eastern Europe.
Adolf Hitler justified his plan for "Lebensraum" in Eastern Europe by citing the United States' expansionist history and treatment of Native Americans as a model for displacing local populations.
At the 1926 Bamberg Conference, Adolf Hitler declared the NSDAP's 25-point program unalterable and affirmed that the party's foreign policy would focus on eastward conquest, not an alliance with the Soviet Union.
The Wall Street crash of October 1929 led to the immediate recall of American loans that had been supporting the Weimar Republic's economy, triggering a severe economic crisis in Germany.
In Germany, unemployment rose to over 14% by January 1930 and peaked in 1932 with nearly 50% of the workforce being either fully or partially unemployed.
In the September 1930 German federal election, the NSDAP's vote share increased to 18.3%, winning 107 seats and making it the second-largest party in the Reichstag.
In the July 1932 federal election, the NSDAP won 37.4% of the vote, becoming the largest party in the German Reichstag.