Germany during the 1920's was going through a massive depression caused by the reparations being forced to pay to france after ww1 causing germany's (At this time called the weimar republik) to go into a state where most people were poor and unable to pay for food(accounts of bread costing 1 B francs) so revolutions were happenign to over throw the government such as the beer hall putsch in which hitler and his supports attempted an uprising